Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: pageinspect: Try to fix some bugs in previous commit.

On Fri, Feb 3, 2017 at 9:46 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
>> On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 11:00 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>>> I'm about to push a fix that removes the crashes (or at least the ones
>>> I see on dromedary),
>
>> For comparison, a patch I wrote by inspection is attached.
>
> Hm, some of what you have here matches what I just pushed, but not all.
>
> I just made the C code agree with what the SQL declarations for the
> functions say.  I'm pretty dubious that the SQL declarations are entirely
> sensible as to which values need to be of what width, but I'll leave that
> decision for somebody who's been paying closer attention to the hash code.
>

I have gone through all the of the SQL declarations and it seems
hash_metapage_info(...,OUT procid int4,..) is not consistent.  procid
is unsigned int, so isn't it better to use the corresponding datatype
as int8 in SQL function hash_metapage_info then use Int64GetDatum?

The other inconsistency in the code appears to be in the usage of
UInt64GetDatum and Int64GetDatum for same SQL datatype.  For ex. SQL
declaration of hasho_prevblkno is int8 (hash_page_stats(.. , OUT
hasho_prevblkno int8,..)) and we use Int64GetDatum to fill the
corresponding C value.  However for SQL declaration of maxbucket is
int8 (hash_metapage_info(..,OUT maxbucket int8,)) and we use
UInt64GetDatum() to fetch the value.  I think it is better to be
consistent here.

>>> I think probably both of those are unavoidable 32-bit v 64-bit
>>> differences due to available space on a page changing with MAXALIGN.
>>> What do you want to do about those?
>
>> How about we have the test just select a named list of fields instead
>> of selecting *?
>
> Yeah, that's one possible answer.  We could also maintain two
> expected-files for 32 bit v 64 bit, but I'm not sure it's worth
> the trouble.
>

I think for now selecting named fields is sufficient.

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