Re: postgres_fdw - should we tighten up batch_size, fetch_size options against non-numeric values?

From: Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)oss(dot)nttdata(dot)com>
To: Bharath Rupireddy <bharath(dot)rupireddyforpostgres(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: postgres_fdw - should we tighten up batch_size, fetch_size options against non-numeric values?
Date: 2021-05-18 13:45:15
Message-ID: 24091124-c4ec-f0a9-7ba6-29b8aa6c5cd5@oss.nttdata.com
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On 2021/05/17 18:58, Bharath Rupireddy wrote:
> Hi,
>
> It looks like the values such as '123.456', '789.123' '100$%$#$#',
> '9,223,372,' are accepted and treated as valid integers for
> postgres_fdw options batch_size and fetch_size. Whereas this is not
> the case with fdw_startup_cost and fdw_tuple_cost options for which an
> error is thrown. Attaching a patch to fix that.

This looks an improvement. But one issue is that the restore of
dump file taken by pg_dump from v13 may fail for v14 with this patch
if it contains invalid setting of fetch_size, e.g., "fetch_size '123.456'".
OTOH, since batch_size was added in v14, it has no such issue.

Regards,

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Fujii Masao
Advanced Computing Technology Center
Research and Development Headquarters
NTT DATA CORPORATION

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