I wrote:
> "Kurt Harriman" <kharriman(at)greenplum(dot)com> writes:
>> Just noticed buffile.c:292 doesn't look quite right where
>> BufFileDumpBuffer calls FileWrite:
>> bytestowrite = FileWrite(thisfile, file->buffer, bytestowrite);
>> It looks as though it would write the same data each time the
>> loop is iterated.  Would this be better?
>> bytestowrite = FileWrite(thisfile, file->buffer + wpos, bytestowrite);

> Yeah, I think you're right.

FYI, I was able to exercise the bug by changing RELSEG_SIZE to 2 within
buffile.c and then running this script in the regression database:

set work_mem = '64kB';
begin;
declare c scroll cursor for select * from tenk1 a join tenk1 b using(two);
fetch 1 from c;
fetch 100 from c;
fetch backward 10 from c;
fetch 100 from c;
fetch backward 10 from c;
fetch 100 from c;
fetch backward 100 from c;
commit;

It doesn't crash with the fix applied.  Thanks for spotting it.

			regards, tom lane

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• Re: BufFileWrite across MAX_PHYSICAL_FILESIZE boundary at 2007-05-07 21:45:38 from Tom Lane

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