Re: [PROPOSAL] VACUUM Progress Checker.

On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 9:01 AM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 8:45 AM, Rahila Syed <rahilasyed90(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> Server crash was reported on running vacuum progress checker view on 32-bit
>> machine.
>> Please find attached a fix for the same.
>>
>> Crash was because 32 bit machine considers int8 as being passed by reference
>> while creating the tuple descriptor. At the time of filling the tuple store,
>> the code (heap_fill_tuple) checks this tuple descriptor before inserting the
>> value into the tuple store. It finds the attribute type pass by reference
>> and hence it treats the value as a pointer when it is not and thus it fails
>> at the time of memcpy.
>>
>> This happens because appropriate conversion function is not employed while
>> storing the value of that particular attribute into the values array before
>> copying it into tuple store.
>>
>> - values[i+3] =
>> UInt32GetDatum(beentry->st_progress_param[i]);
>> + values[i+3] =
>> Int64GetDatum(beentry->st_progress_param[i]);
>>
>>
>> Attached patch fixes this.
>
> Uggh, what a stupid mistake on my part.
>
> Committed. Thanks for the patch.

Oops. I forgot to credit you in the commit message. Sorry about that. :-(

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