Re: SIGSEGV in BRIN autosummarize

On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 12:59:16PM +0200, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Justin Pryzby wrote:
>
> > #1 0x00000000006a52e9 in perform_work_item (workitem=0x7f8ad1f94824) at autovacuum.c:2676
> > cur_datname = 0x298c740 "no 1 :vartype 1184 :vartypmod -1 :varcollid 0 :varlevelsup 0 :varnoold 1 :varoattno 1 :location 146} {CONST :consttype 1184 :consttypmod -1 :constcollid 0 :constlen 8 :constbyval true :constisnull fal"...
> > cur_nspname = 0x298c728 "s ({VAR :varno 1 :varattno 1 :vartype 1184 :vartypmod -1 :varcollid 0 :varlevelsup 0 :varnoold 1 :varoattno 1 :location 146} {CONST :consttype 1184 :consttypmod -1 :constcollid 0 :constlen 8 :constbyv"...
> > cur_relname = 0x298cd68 "cdrs_eric_msc_sms_2017_10_14_startofcharge_idx"
> > __func__ = "perform_work_item"
>
> cur_datname here seems corrupted -- it points halfway into cur_nspname,
> which is also a corrupt value. And I think that's because we're not
> checking that the namespace OID is a valid value before calling
> get_namespace_name on it. And I'm betting that these values are all not
> what we expect, because we're not checking that we're in the correct
> database before trying to execute the work item. I don't quite
> understand how this results in an invalid string rather than just a
> NULL, as I would have expected.

I'm happy to try the patch, but in case it makes any difference, we have few
DBs/schemas:

postgres=# \dn
List of schemas
Name | Owner
--------+----------
public | postgres
(1 row)

postgres=# \l+
List of databases
Name | Owner | Encoding | Collate | Ctype | Access privileges | Size | Tablespace | Description
-----------+----------+----------+-------------+-------------+-----------------------+---------+------------+--------------------------------------------
gtt | pryzbyj | UTF8 | en_US.UTF-8 | en_US.UTF-8 | | 2215 GB | pg_default |
postgres | postgres | UTF8 | en_US.UTF-8 | en_US.UTF-8 | | 76 GB | pg_default | default administrative connection database
template0 | postgres | UTF8 | en_US.UTF-8 | en_US.UTF-8 | =c/postgres +| 7625 kB | pg_default | unmodifiable empty database
| | | | | postgres=CTc/postgres | | |
template1 | postgres | UTF8 | en_US.UTF-8 | en_US.UTF-8 | postgres=CTc/postgres+| 7485 kB | pg_default | default template for new databases
| | | | | =c/postgres | | |
(4 rows)

Note that db:postgres is of substantial size since I set log_statement=all and
log_destination=stderr,csv, and import all CSVs into a table heirarchy in
db:postgres. There are 3 BRIN indices per (daily child) table in db:gtt (and
none in postgres, although that's probably a good idea for the timestamp column
once all our customers are upgraded to PG10).

Justin