Re: DBT-3 with SF=20 got failed

2015-06-11 23:33 GMT+09:00 Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com>:
> Hi,
>
> On 06/11/15 16:20, Jan Wieck wrote:
>>
>> On 06/11/2015 09:53 AM, Kouhei Kaigai wrote:
>>>>
>>>> curious: what was work_mem set to?
>>>>
>>> work_mem=48GB
>>>
>>> My machine mounts 256GB physical RAM.
>>
>>
>> work_mem can be allocated several times per backend. Nodes like sort
>> and hash_aggregate may each allocate that much. You should set
>> work_mem to a fraction of physical-RAM / concurrent-connections
>> depending on the complexity of your queries. 48GB does not sound
>> reasonable.
>
>
> That's true, but there are cases where values like this may be useful (e.g.
> for a particular query). We do allow such work_mem values, so I consider
> this failure to be a bug.
>
> It probably existed in the past, but was amplified by the hash join
> improvements I did for 9.5, because that uses NTUP_PER_BUCKET=1 instead of
> NTUP_PER_BUCKET=10. So the arrays of buckets are much larger, and we also
> much more memory than we had in the past.
>
> Interestingly, the hash code checks for INT_MAX overflows on a number of
> places, but does not check for this ...
>
Which number should be changed in this case?

Indeed, nbuckets is declared as int, so INT_MAX is hard limit of hash-slot.
However, some extreme usage can easily create a situation that we shall
touch this restriction.

Do we have nbuckets using long int?

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KaiGai Kohei <kaigai@kaigai.gr.jp>