Re: logical decoding : exceeded maxAllocatedDescs for .spill files

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Kuntal Ghosh <kuntalghosh(dot)2007(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>, Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>, Amit Khandekar <amitdkhan(dot)pg(at)gmail(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera from 2ndQuadrant <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>, Juan José Santamaría Flecha <juanjo(dot)santamaria(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: logical decoding : exceeded maxAllocatedDescs for .spill files
Date: 2020-02-07 19:47:58
Message-ID: 20200207194758.hv43s6q7ofd5pnp5@alap3.anarazel.de
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Hi,

On 2020-02-07 20:02:01 +0100, Tomas Vondra wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 07, 2020 at 10:33:48AM -0800, Andres Freund wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On 2020-02-04 10:15:01 +0530, Kuntal Ghosh wrote:
> > > And, the issue got reproduced with the same error:
> > > WARNING: problem in Generation Tuples: number of free chunks 0 in
> > > block 0x7fe9e9e74010 exceeds 1018 allocated
> >
> > That seems like a problem in generation.c - because this should be
> > unreachable, I think?

> That's rather strange. How could we print this message? The code looks
> like this
>
> if (block->nfree >= block->nchunks)
> elog(WARNING, "problem in Generation %s: number of free chunks %d in block %p exceeds %d allocated",
> name, block->nfree, block, block->nchunks);
>
> so this says 0 >= 1018. Or am I missing something?

Indeed, it's pretty weird. I can't reproduce it either. Kuntal, which
exact git version did you repro this on? What precise settings /
platform?

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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