Re: brin multi minmax crash for inet value

On 9/13/21 8:19 AM, Jaime Casanova wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 12, 2021 at 08:23:44PM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote:
>> On Sun, Sep 12, 2021 at 07:44:47PM -0500, Jaime Casanova wrote:
>>> Hi Tomas,
>>>
>>> Just noted that this query crash the server. Execute it in the
>>> regression database:
>>
>> If I'm not wrong, this is the crash fixed by e1fbe1181 in April.
>>
>> Could you check what HEAD your server is compiled from ?
>>
>
> That was with yesterday's head but trying with today's head this
> same update works fine.
>
> Maybe there is something else happening here, will try to investigate
> tomorrow.
>

Per the backtrace the value is very close to 0

delta = -1.1641532182693481e-08

so I suspect this might be a rounding error when calculating the delta
as a difference between two inet values. That's harmless in practice,
but it may trigger the assert.

I wonder if the delta should be calculated differently. Currently we
calculate it "byte by byte" adding up the smaller differences. But that
has this rounding issue.

regards

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