Re: Multivariate MCV lists -- pg_mcv_list_items() seems to be broken - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tomas Vondra
Subject Re: Multivariate MCV lists -- pg_mcv_list_items() seems to be broken
Date
Msg-id 20190415165533.25gotopt5yffwdaj@development
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In response to Re: Multivariate MCV lists -- pg_mcv_list_items() seems to be broken  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
List pgsql-hackers
On Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 12:26:02PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com> writes:
>> SELECT pg_mcv_list_items(stxmcv) from pg_statistic_ext WHERE stxname = 'foo_s';
>> which fails with
>> ERROR:  cache lookup failed for type 0
>
>> That definitely used to work, so I'm guessing it got broken by the
>> recent reworking of the serialisation code, but I've not looked into
>> it.
>
>Yeah, looks like sloppy thinking about whether or not the types array
>participates in maxalign-forcing?
>

Actually, no. It seems aligned just fine, AFAICS. The bug a bit more
embarassing - the deserialization does

    memcpy(ptr, mcvlist->types, sizeof(Oid) * ndims);

while it should be doing

    memcpy(mcvlist->types, ptr, sizeof(Oid) * ndims);

Will fix.


cheers

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