Re: [patch]HashJoin crash

From: Justin Pryzby <pryzby(at)telsasoft(dot)com>
To: Zhang Mingli <zmlpostgres(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Subject: Re: [patch]HashJoin crash
Date: 2022-08-13 19:17:46
Message-ID: 20220813191746.GI26198@telsasoft.com
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+ Tom Lane

On Fri, Aug 12, 2022 at 11:05:06PM +0800, Zhang Mingli wrote:
> I got a coredump when using hash join on a Postgres derived Database(Greenplum DB).
> And I find a way to reproduce it on Postgres.
>
> Root cause:
>
> In ExecChooseHashTableSize(), commit b154ee63bb uses func pg_nextpower2_size_t
> whose param must not be 0.
>
> sbuckets = pg_nextpower2_size_t(hash_table_bytes / bucket_size);
>
> There is a potential risk that hash_table_bytes < bucket_size in some corner cases.
>
> Reproduce sql:

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