Re: Miscalculation in IsCheckpointOnSchedule()

Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> ITAGAKI Takahiro <itagaki(dot)takahiro(at)oss(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp> writes:
> > - ((double) (int32) (recptr.xrecoff - ckpt_start_recptr.xrecoff)) / XLogSegSize) /
> > + ((double) recptr.xrecoff - (double) ckpt_start_recptr.xrecoff) / XLogSegSize) /
>
> Surely this makes matters worse, not better. What happens near a segment
> boundary crossing?

Here is the dumped progres information by the attached patch
(only for debug purpose).

cur prog. xlog prog. time prog.
[-400ms] 0.030503 0.019247 0.031158 (diff xlogid=0, xrecoff=82665472)
[-200ms] 0.031176 0.019957 0.031839 (diff xlogid=0, xrecoff=85712896)
[*] 0.031860 1.020706 0.032521 (diff xlogid=1, xrecoff=105709568)

> recptr.xrecoff - ckpt_start_recptr.xrecoff

recptr.xrecoff is reset to 0 or so when xlogid is bumped up. At that time,
if ckpt_start_recptr.xrecoff is greater than 2G, we cannot represent
the difference with int32 because the value is less than -2G.
Casting double after int32 does not help us.

We use ( xlogid * 255 * 16MB + xrecoff ) as a base value for the calculation.
If we interprets xrecoff=105709568 at [*] as "minus uint32", we can calcurate
it correctly as below:

without fix with fix
[-400ms] 82665472 82665472 (same)
[-200ms] 85712896 85712896 (same)
[*] 4383899648 88932353 (= 1*255*16MB - (0xFFFFFFFF - 105709568) )

Regards,
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ITAGAKI Takahiro
NTT Open Source Software Center