Re: pgsql: Increase upper limit for vacuum_cleanup_index_scale_factor - Mailing list pgsql-committers

From Alexander Korotkov
Subject Re: pgsql: Increase upper limit for vacuum_cleanup_index_scale_factor
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In response to Re: pgsql: Increase upper limit for vacuum_cleanup_index_scale_factor  (Piotr Stefaniak <postgres@piotr-stefaniak.me>)
Responses Re: pgsql: Increase upper limit for vacuum_cleanup_index_scale_factor  (Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>)
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Hi!

On Sun, Apr 14, 2019 at 11:00 PM Piotr Stefaniak
<postgres@piotr-stefaniak.me> wrote:
> On 26/06/2018 14.35, Alexander Korotkov wrote:
> > Increase upper limit for vacuum_cleanup_index_scale_factor
> >
> > Upper limits for vacuum_cleanup_index_scale_factor GUC and reloption
> > were initially set to 100.0 in 857f9c36.  However, after further
> > discussion, it appears that some users like to disable B-tree cleanup
> > index scan completely (assuming there are no deleted pages).
> >
> > vacuum_cleanup_index_scale_factor is used barely to protect against
> > stalled index statistics.  And after detailed consideration it appears
> > that risk of stalled index statistics is low.  And it would be nice to
> > allow advanced users setting higher values of
> > vacuum_cleanup_index_scale_factor.  So, set upper limit for these
> > GUC and reloption to DBL_MAX.
>
> UB Sanitizer points out that prev_num_heap_tuples is sometimes 0,
> leading to division by 0 in
>                         (info->num_heap_tuples - prev_num_heap_tuples) /
>                         prev_num_heap_tuples >= cleanup_scale_factor)
> which are currently lines 839-840 in nbtree.c.
>
> Attaching my idea of a fix.

Thank you for noticing.  BTW, I've more trivial idea for fixing this: replace
prev_num_heap_tuples < 0
with
prev_num_heap_tuples <= 0

If prev_num_heap_tuples == 0, subsequent part of expression isn't
evaluated because result is known to be true.  And I think it's right
to don't skip cleanup when prev_num_heap_tuples == 0.



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Alexander Korotkov
Postgres Professional: http://www.postgrespro.com
The Russian Postgres Company

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