Re: [BUGS] Bug in pg_autovacuum ?

From: "Matthew T(dot) O'Connor" <matthew(at)zeut(dot)net>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Cott Lang <cott(at)internetstaff(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [BUGS] Bug in pg_autovacuum ?
Date: 2004-02-11 22:57:19
Message-ID: 1076540239.29819.0.camel@zedora.zeut.net
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Yeah, I'll take a look at it and submit a patch. Sorry I didn't see it
sooner, but I don't read the bugs mailing list.

On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 17:29, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Would someone review these problems and submit a patch? Thanks.
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Tom Lane wrote:
> > Cott Lang <cott(at)internetstaff(dot)com> writes:
> > > If the number of tuples is sufficiently high, pg reports 'reltuples'
> > > back in TABLE_STATS_QUERY in scientific notation instead of an integer.
> >
> > Right, because that column is actually a float4.
> >
> > > Changing from atoi() to atof() solves the problem completely.
> >
> > > new_tbl->reltuples =
> > > atof(PQgetvalue(res, row, PQfnumber(res, "reltuples")));
> >
> > > new_tbl->relpages =
> > > atof(PQgetvalue(res, row, PQfnumber(res, "relpages")));
> >
> > I should think this would break in different ways once reltuples exceeds
> > INT_MAX. A full fix would require changing new_tbl->reltuples to be
> > float or double, and coping with any downstream changes that implies.
> >
> > Also, relpages *is* an integer, though it's best interpreted as an
> > unsigned one. (Ditto for relid.) Looks like this code is 0-for-3 on
> > getting the datatypes right :-(
> >
> > regards, tom lane
> >
> > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)---------------------------
> > TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
> >

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