Hi,

On 2014-04-04 10:48:32 +0300, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> But if we give the checkpointer process a free pass, running the regression
> tests with an assertion in AllocSetAlloc catches five genuine bugs:
> 
> 1. _bt_newroot
> 2. XLogFileInit
> 3. spgPageIndexMultiDelete
> 4. PageRepairFragmentation
> 5. PageIndexMultiDelete

Some of those, like PageRepairFragmentation, are somewhat bad...

> @@ -484,10 +483,11 @@ PageRepairFragmentation(Page page)
>               ((PageHeader) page)->pd_upper = pd_special;
>       }
>       else
> -     {                                                       /* nstorage != 
> 0 */
> +     {
>               /* Need to compact the page the hard way */
> -             itemidbase = (itemIdSort) palloc(sizeof(itemIdSortData) * 
> nstorage);
> -             itemidptr = itemidbase;
> +             itemIdSortData itemidbase[MaxHeapTuplesPerPage];
> +             itemIdSort      itemidptr = itemidbase;
> +

That's a fair bit of stack, and it can be called somewhat deep on the
stack via heap_page_prune_opt(). I wonder if we ought to add a
check_stack_depth() somewhere.

Thanks,

Andres Freund


-- 
Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org)
To make changes to your subscription:
http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers

Reply via email to