Re: [sqlsmith] Failed assertion in joinrels.c

From: Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andreas Seltenreich <seltenreich(at)gmx(dot)de>, Piotr Stefaniak <postgres(at)piotr-stefaniak(dot)me>, PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [sqlsmith] Failed assertion in joinrels.c
Date: 2016-08-08 11:53:12
Message-ID: CAA4eK1JrgbBVHj2g2F-Qh9zsZViampD-2WX0A6epBE7c52f-_A@mail.gmail.com
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On Mon, Aug 8, 2016 at 5:11 PM, Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 8, 2016 at 4:58 PM, Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 5:35 AM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I think that's just making life difficult. If nothing else, sqlsmith
>>> hunts around for functions it can call that return internal errors,
>>> and if we refuse to fix all of them to return user-facing errors, then
>>> it's just crap for the people running sqlsmith to sift through and
>>> it's a judgment call whether to fix each particular case. Even aside
>>> from that, I think it's much better to have a clear and unambiguous
>>> rule that elog is only for can't-happen things, not
>>> we-don't-recommend-it things.
>>
>>
>> I have changed for all these function to report more appropriate error with
>> ereport.
>>
>> I used ERRCODE_WRONG_OBJECT_TYPE error code for reporting such errors.
>> I think this is closest error code among all existing error codes, other
>> options can be (ERRCODE_WRONG_OBJECT_TYPE).
>>
>
> Your other options and the option you choose are same.
>

Did you consider to use ERRCODE_UNDEFINED_COLUMN with error messages
like: "type %u does not exit" or "type id %u does not exit"? Errorcode
ERRCODE_UNDEFINED_COLUMN seems to be used for syscache lookup failure
cases at certain places in code.

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With Regards,
Amit Kapila.
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com

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