Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Avoid GatherMerge crash when thereare no workers. - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Rushabh Lathia
Subject Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Avoid GatherMerge crash when thereare no workers.
Date
Msg-id CAGPqQf2xxFfDNGTHtP536mpQM=CYmaQveiMKxJ_uvBr+J8fECA@mail.gmail.com
Whole thread Raw
Responses Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Avoid GatherMerge crash when thereare no workers.  (Rushabh Lathia <rushabh.lathia@gmail.com>)
List pgsql-hackers


On Sat, Apr 1, 2017 at 7:58 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 10:26 PM, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 2017-04-01 01:22:14 +0000, Robert Haas wrote:
>> Avoid GatherMerge crash when there are no workers.
>
> I think the gather merge code needs a bit more test coverage (sorry to
> make this a larger theme today).  As shown by
> https://coverage.postgresql.org/src/backend/executor/nodeGatherMerge.c.gcov.html
> we don't actually merge anything (heap_compare_slots is not exercised).

Sounds reasonable.

I am working on this and will submit the patch soon.
 

> I btw also wonder if it's good that we have a nearly identical copy of
> heap_compare_slots and a bunch of the calling code in both
> nodeMergeAppend.c and nodeGatherMerge.c.  On the other hand, it's not
> heavily envolving code.

Yeah, I don't know.  We could alternatively try to move that to some
common location and merge the two implementations.  I'm not sure
exactly where, though.

--
Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company


--
Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org)
To make changes to your subscription:
http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers



--
Rushabh Lathia

pgsql-hackers by date:

Previous
From: "Tsunakawa, Takayuki"
Date:
Subject: Re: Supporting huge pages on Windows
Next
From: Craig Ringer
Date:
Subject: Re: Logical decoding on standby