[HACKERS] wrong t_bits alignment in pageinspect

Started by Maksim Milyutinover 8 years ago5 messageshackers
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#1Maksim Milyutin
milyutinma@gmail.com

Hi!

I found out the problem in exposing values of t_bits field from
heap_page_items function.

When the number of attributes in table is multiple of eight, t_bits
column shows double number of bits in which data fields are included.

For example:

# create table tbl(f1 int, f2 int, f3 int, f4 int, f5 int, f6 int, f7
int, f8 int);
# insert into tbl(f1, f8) values (x'f1'::int, 0);

# select t_bits, t_data from heap_page_items(get_raw_page('tbl', 0));

                   t_bits      |       t_data
           ------------------+--------------------
 1000000110001111 | \xf100000000000000

I suppose the prefix 10000001 corresponds to real value of t_bits, the
rest part 10001111 - to the lower byte of f1 field of tbl.

Attached patch fixes this issue.

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Regards,
Maksim Milyutin

Attachments:

pageinspect_tbits_alignment_fix.patchtext/x-patch; name=pageinspect_tbits_alignment_fix.patchDownload+1-1
#2Andrey Borodin
amborodin@acm.org
In reply to: Maksim Milyutin (#1)
Re: [HACKERS] wrong t_bits alignment in pageinspect

Hi!

15 дек. 2017 г., в 18:53, Maksim Milyutin <milyutinma@gmail.com> написал(а):

I found out the problem in exposing values of t_bits field from heap_page_items function.

Probably, this [0]https://github.com/postgres/postgres/blob/master/contrib/pageinspect/heapfuncs.c#L439 place contains similar bug too?
Also, may be macro HeapTupleHeaderGetNatts() will be a little bit easier to read.

Best regards, Andrey Borodin.

[0]: https://github.com/postgres/postgres/blob/master/contrib/pageinspect/heapfuncs.c#L439

#3Maksim Milyutin
milyutinma@gmail.com
In reply to: Andrey Borodin (#2)
Re: [HACKERS] wrong t_bits alignment in pageinspect

Hi!

02.01.2018 12:33, Andrey Borodin wrote:

15 дек. 2017 г., в 18:53, Maksim Milyutin <milyutinma@gmail.com> написал(а):

I found out the problem in exposing values of t_bits field from heap_page_items function.

Probably, this [0] place contains similar bug too?

[0] https://github.com/postgres/postgres/blob/master/contrib/pageinspect/heapfuncs.c#L439

Yes, it's so. Thanks a lot for notice.

Attached a new version of patch with regression test.

--
Regards,
Maksim Milyutin

Attachments:

pageinspect_tbits_alignment_fix_v2.patchtext/plain; charset=UTF-8; name=pageinspect_tbits_alignment_fix_v2.patch; x-mac-creator=0; x-mac-type=0Download+30-5
#4Andrey Borodin
amborodin@acm.org
In reply to: Maksim Milyutin (#3)
Re: [HACKERS] wrong t_bits alignment in pageinspect

The following review has been posted through the commitfest application:
make installcheck-world: tested, passed
Implements feature: not tested
Spec compliant: tested, passed
Documentation: tested, passed

Everything is fixed, works properly and I have no new notices.
I think that patch is ready for committer.

Best regards, Andrey Borodin.

The new status of this patch is: Ready for Committer

#5Tom Lane
tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us
In reply to: Maksim Milyutin (#3)
Re: [HACKERS] wrong t_bits alignment in pageinspect

Maksim Milyutin <milyutinma@gmail.com> writes:

Attached a new version of patch with regression test.

Looks good, pushed.

I also removed one error check from tuple_data_split --- there doesn't
seem to be a lot of point in checking that bits_str_len is some multiple
of 8 when we're about to check that it's equal to a particular multiple
of 8.

regards, tom lane