Hi,
On 2023-07-06 11:16:26 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Ranier Vilela <ranier.vf@gmail.com> writes:
> > See the comments:
> > "Search for the first empty element."
> > If the empty element is not found, startelem has PG_UINT64_MAX value,
> > which do not fit in uint32.
>
> I think the point of that assertion is exactly that we're required to
> have an empty element (because max fillfactor is less than 1),
> so the search should have succeeded.
Right, that part of the proposed change seems bogus to me.
> It does seem like we could do
>
> uint64 startelem = SH_MAX_SIZE;
>
> ...
>
> Assert(startelem < SH_MAX_SIZE);
>
> which'd make it a little clearer that the expectation is for
> startelem to have changed value.
I guess? I find it easier to understand all-bits-set in a coredump as
too-large than SH_MAX_SIZE, but ...
> And I agree that declaring "i" as int is wrong.
Yea, that's definitely not right, not sure how I ended up with that. Will push
a fix. I guess it should be backpatched...
Greetings,
Andres Freund