| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| Subject: | pgsql: btree_gist: fix NaN handling in float4/float8 opclasses. |
| Date: | 2026-07-01 17:27:48 |
| Message-ID: | E1weyiy-000ysq-0w@gemulon.postgresql.org |
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btree_gist: fix NaN handling in float4/float8 opclasses.
The float4 and float8 btree_gist opclasses compared keys with raw C
operators (==, <, >). IEEE 754 makes every comparison involving NaN
false, so GiST disagreed with the regular float comparison operators
and with the btree opclass, which uses float[4|8]_cmp_internal()
(so that all NaNs are equal and NaN sorts after every non-NaN value).
In addition, the penalty and distance functions were not careful
about NaNs, and the penalty functions could also misbehave for IEEE
infinities. Wrong answers from the penalty functions would probably
do no more than make the index non-optimal, but the distance mistakes
were visible from SQL.
To fix, make the comparison functions rely on the same NaN-aware
comparison functions the core code uses, and rewrite the penalty
and distance functions to follow the rules that NaNs are equal
but maximally far away from non-NaNs. The penalty_num() code was
formerly shared between integral and float cases, but I chose to make
two copies so that the integral cases are not saddled with the extra
logic for NaNs and infinities/overflows. I also rewrote it as static
inline functions instead of an unreadable and uncommented macro.
The float penalty functions were previously unreached by the
regression tests, so add new test cases to exercise them.
There's no on-disk format change, but users who have NaN entries
in a btree_gist index would be well advised to reindex it.
Bug: #19501
Bug: #19524
Reported-by: Man Zeng <zengman(at)halodbtech(dot)com>
Reported-by: Yuelin Wang <3020001251(at)tju(dot)edu(dot)cn>
Author: Bill Kim <billkimjh(at)gmail(dot)com>
Co-authored-by: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/19501-3bff3bbc97f1e7c9@postgresql.org
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/19524-9559d302c8455664@postgresql.org
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMQXxcgbtD2LXfX0tpgvOizxP-XxrCHV2ZDy4By_TZnJMsxXWQ@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 14
Branch
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REL_19_STABLE
Details
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/a47005f0b11df3e456c755c73b6f41fd26b27cad
Modified Files
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contrib/btree_gist/btree_float4.c | 59 +++++++++-----
contrib/btree_gist/btree_float8.c | 51 +++++++++----
contrib/btree_gist/btree_utils_num.h | 131 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
contrib/btree_gist/data/float4.data | 3 +
contrib/btree_gist/data/float8.data | 3 +
contrib/btree_gist/expected/float4.out | 51 +++++++++++--
contrib/btree_gist/expected/float8.out | 51 +++++++++++--
contrib/btree_gist/expected/numeric.out | 48 ++++++------
contrib/btree_gist/sql/float4.sql | 17 +++++
contrib/btree_gist/sql/float8.sql | 17 +++++
10 files changed, 345 insertions(+), 86 deletions(-)
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