Fix overflow when calculating timestamp distance in BRIN

When calculating distances for timestamp values for BRIN minmax-multi
indexes, we need to be careful about overflows for extreme values. If
the value overflows into a negative value, the index may be inefficient.

The new regression test checks this for the timestamp type by adding a
table with enough values to force range compaction/merging. The values
are close to min/max, which means a risk of overflow.

Fixed by converting the int64 values to double first, before calculating
the distance. This prevents the overflow. We may lose some precision, of
course, but that's good enough. In the worst case we build a slightly
less efficient index, but for large distances this won't matter.

This only affects minmax-multi indexes on timestamp columns, with ranges
containing values sufficiently distant to cause an overflow. That seems
like a fairly rare case in practice.

Backpatch to 14, where minmax-multi indexes were introduced.

Reported-by: Ashutosh Bapat
Reviewed-by: Ashutosh Bapat, Dean Rasheed
Backpatch-through: 14
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/eef0ea8c-4aaa-8d0d-027f-58b1f35dd170@enterprisedb.com
This commit is contained in:
Tomas Vondra 2023-10-27 17:56:27 +02:00
parent 70b59a2728
commit 90c4da6d43
3 changed files with 37 additions and 1 deletions

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@ -2138,7 +2138,7 @@ brin_minmax_multi_distance_timestamp(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
if (TIMESTAMP_NOT_FINITE(dt1) || TIMESTAMP_NOT_FINITE(dt2))
PG_RETURN_FLOAT8(0);
delta = dt2 - dt1;
delta = (float8) dt2 - (float8) dt1;
Assert(delta >= 0);

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@ -466,3 +466,18 @@ EXPLAIN (COSTS OFF) SELECT * FROM brin_test_multi WHERE b = 1;
Filter: (b = 1)
(2 rows)
-- test overflows during CREATE INDEX with extreme timestamp values
CREATE TABLE brin_timestamp_test(a TIMESTAMPTZ);
SET datestyle TO iso;
-- values close to timetamp minimum
INSERT INTO brin_timestamp_test
SELECT '4713-01-01 00:00:01 BC'::timestamptz + (i || ' seconds')::interval
FROM generate_series(1,30) s(i);
-- values close to timetamp maximum
INSERT INTO brin_timestamp_test
SELECT '294276-12-01 00:00:01'::timestamptz + (i || ' seconds')::interval
FROM generate_series(1,30) s(i);
CREATE INDEX ON brin_timestamp_test USING brin (a timestamptz_minmax_multi_ops) WITH (pages_per_range=1);
DROP TABLE brin_timestamp_test;
RESET enable_seqscan;
RESET datestyle;

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@ -421,3 +421,24 @@ VACUUM ANALYZE brin_test_multi;
EXPLAIN (COSTS OFF) SELECT * FROM brin_test_multi WHERE a = 1;
-- Ensure brin index is not used when values are not correlated
EXPLAIN (COSTS OFF) SELECT * FROM brin_test_multi WHERE b = 1;
-- test overflows during CREATE INDEX with extreme timestamp values
CREATE TABLE brin_timestamp_test(a TIMESTAMPTZ);
SET datestyle TO iso;
-- values close to timetamp minimum
INSERT INTO brin_timestamp_test
SELECT '4713-01-01 00:00:01 BC'::timestamptz + (i || ' seconds')::interval
FROM generate_series(1,30) s(i);
-- values close to timetamp maximum
INSERT INTO brin_timestamp_test
SELECT '294276-12-01 00:00:01'::timestamptz + (i || ' seconds')::interval
FROM generate_series(1,30) s(i);
CREATE INDEX ON brin_timestamp_test USING brin (a timestamptz_minmax_multi_ops) WITH (pages_per_range=1);
DROP TABLE brin_timestamp_test;
RESET enable_seqscan;
RESET datestyle;