Re: Bug in huge simplehash

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: Yura Sokolov <y(dot)sokolov(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org, Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Bug in huge simplehash
Date: 2021-08-13 10:15:43
Message-ID: 20210813101543.bkncnioyqi472man@alap3.anarazel.de
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Hi,

On 2021-08-13 12:44:17 +0300, Yura Sokolov wrote:
> Andres Freund писал 2021-08-13 12:21:
> > Any chance you'd write a test for simplehash with such huge amount of
> > values? It'd require a small bit of trickery to be practical. On systems
> > with MAP_NORESERVE it should be feasible.
>
> Which way C structures should be tested in postgres?
> dynahash/simplhash - do they have any tests currently?
> I'll do if hint is given.

We don't have a great way right now :(. I think the best is to have a
SQL callable function that uses some API. See e.g. test_atomic_ops() et
al in src/test/regress/regress.c

> > > static inline void
> > > -SH_COMPUTE_PARAMETERS(SH_TYPE * tb, uint32 newsize)
> > > +SH_COMPUTE_PARAMETERS(SH_TYPE * tb, uint64 newsize)
> > > {
> > > uint64 size;
> > >
> > > @@ -322,11 +322,7 @@ SH_COMPUTE_PARAMETERS(SH_TYPE * tb, uint32
> > > newsize)
> > >
> > > /* now set size */
> > > tb->size = size;
> > > -
> > > - if (tb->size == SH_MAX_SIZE)
> > > - tb->sizemask = 0;
> > > - else
> > > - tb->sizemask = tb->size - 1;
> > > + tb->sizemask = (uint32)(size - 1);
> >
> > ISTM using ~0 would be nicer here?
>
> I don't think so.
> To be rigid it should be `~(uint32)0`.
> But I believe it doesn't differ from `tb->sizemask = (uint32)(size - 1)`
> that is landed with patch, therefore why `if` is needed?

Personally I find it more obvious to understand the intended behaviour
with ~0 (i.e. all bits set) than with a width truncation.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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