Re: Crash in BRIN summarization

From: Emre Hasegeli <emre(at)hasegeli(dot)com>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Crash in BRIN summarization
Date: 2019-08-28 11:03:59
Message-ID: CAE2gYzxyt2bU9zCxQHqvKnqHYrtq-rVjDruk_vFvwGV5x8_0tw@mail.gmail.com
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Thank you for your fix.

> This assumes that the merge function returns a newly-palloc'd value.
> That's a shaky assumption; if one of the arguments is an empty range,
> range_merge() returns the other argument, rather than a newly
> constructed value. And surely we can't assume assume that for
> user-defined opclasses.

Your analysis looks right to me.

> brin_inclusion_union() has a similar issue, but I didn't write a script
> to reproduce that. Fix attached.

I am not sure about this part. If it's okay to use col_a->bv_values
without copying, it should also be okay to use col_b->bv_values, no?

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