Re: [sqlsmith] Failed assertion in joinrels.c

On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 7:21 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> We could make it work like that without breaking the ABI if we were
> to add a NOERROR bit to the allowed "flags".  However, after looking
> around a bit I'm no longer convinced what I said above is a good idea.
> In particular, if we put the responsibility of reporting the error on
> callers then we'll lose the ability to distinguish "no such pg_type OID"
> from "type exists but it's only a shell".  So I'm now thinking it's okay
> to promote lookup_type_cache's elog to a full ereport, especially since
> it's already using ereport for some of the related error cases such as
> the shell-type failure.

Okay..
>
> That still leaves us with what to do for domain_in.  A really simple
> fix would be to move the InitDomainConstraintRef call before the
> getBaseTypeAndTypmod call, because the former fetches the typcache
> entry and would then benefit from lookup_type_cache's ereport.
> But that seems a bit magic.
>
> I'm tempted to propose that domain_state_setup start with
>
>     typentry = lookup_type_cache(domainType, TYPECACHE_DOMAIN_INFO);
>     if (typentry->typtype != TYPTYPE_DOMAIN)
>         ereport(ERROR,
>                 (errcode(ERRCODE_DATATYPE_MISMATCH),
>                  errmsg("type %s is not a domain",
>                         format_type_be(domainType))));
>
> removing the need to verify that after getBaseTypeAndTypmod.

Seems like a better option, done it this way..
attaching the modified patch..
>
> The cache loading is basically free because InitDomainConstraintRef
> would do it anyway; so the extra cost here is only one dynahash search.
> You could imagine buying back those cycles by teaching the typcache
> to be able to cache the result of getBaseTypeAndTypmod, but I'm doubtful
> that we really care.  This whole setup sequence only happens once per
> query anyway.

Agreed.

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Dilip Kumar
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