[postgis-tickets] [PostGIS] #3904: PostgreSQL 11 crashing on PostGIS 2.5 trunk

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Fri Oct 13 22:35:01 PDT 2017


#3904: PostgreSQL 11 crashing on PostGIS 2.5 trunk
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 Reporter:  robe     |      Owner:  pramsey
     Type:  defect   |     Status:  new
 Priority:  blocker  |  Milestone:  PostGIS 2.5.0
Component:  postgis  |    Version:  2.4.x
 Keywords:           |
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 Since this pg11 commit
 Debbie's pg 11 runs have been failing.
 I haven't checked PostGIS 2.4 since we don't test 11 on 2.4

 {{{
 Summary

     Add pg_noinline macro to c.h. (details)
     Improve sys/catcache performance. (details)

 Commit a0247e7a11bb9f5fd55694b594a3906b7bd05881 by andres

 Add pg_noinline macro to c.h.
 Forcing a function not to be inlined can be useful if it's the slow-path
 of a performance critical function, or should be visible in profiles to
 allow for proper cost attribution.
 Author: Andres Freund Discussion:
 https://postgr.es/m/20170914061207.zxotvyopetm7lrrp@alap3.anarazel.de

 The file was modified   src/include/c.h
 Commit 141fd1b66ce6e3d10518d66d4008bd368f1505fd by andres

 Improve sys/catcache performance.
 The following are the individual improvements: 1) Avoidance of
 FunctionCallInfo based function calls, replaced by
   more efficient functions with a native C argument interface. 2) Don't
 extract columns from a cache entry's tuple whenever matching
   entries - instead store them as a Datum array. This also allows to
   get rid of having to build dummy tuples for negative & list
   entries, and of a hack for dealing with cstring vs. text weirdness. 3)
 Reorder members of catcache.h struct, so imortant entries are more
   likely to be on one cacheline. 4) Allowing the compiler to specialize
 critical SearchCatCache for a
   specific number of attributes allows to unroll loops and avoid
   other nkeys dependant initialization. 5) Only initializing the ScanKey
 when necessary, i.e. catcache misses,
   greatly reduces cache unnecessary cpu cache misses. 6) Split of the
 cache-miss case from the hash lookup, reducing stack
   allocations etc in the common case. 7) CatCTup and their corresponding
 heaptuple are allocated in one
   piece.
 This results in making cache lookups themselves roughly three times as
 fast - full-system benchmarks obviously improve less than that.
 I've also evaluated further techniques:
 - replace open coded hash with simplehash - the list walk right now
  shows up in profiles. Unfortunately it's not easy to do so safely as
  an entry's memory location can change at various times, which
  doesn't work well with the refcounting and cache invalidation.
 - Cacheline-aligning CatCTup entries - helps some with performance,
  but the win isn't big and the code for it is ugly, because the
  tuples have to be freed as well.
 - add more proper functions, rather than macros for
  SearchSysCacheCopyN etc., but right now they don't show up in
  profiles.
 The reason the macro wrapper for syscache.c/h have to be changed, rather
 than just catcache, is that doing otherwise would require exposing the
 SysCache array to the outside.  That might be a good idea anyway, but
 it's for another day.
 Author: Andres Freund Reviewed-By: Robert Haas Discussion:
 https://postgr.es/m/20170914061207.zxotvyopetm7lrrp@alap3.anarazel.de

 The file was modified   src/tools/pgindent/typedefs.list
 The file was modified   src/include/utils/syscache.h
 The file was modified   src/backend/utils/cache/catcache.c
 The file was modified   src/include/utils/catcache.h
 The file was modified   src/backend/utils/cache/syscache.c
 }}}


 The postgis regress log looks like this:


 {{{
 PostgreSQL 11devel on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by gcc (Debian
 5.2.1-22) 5.2.1 20151010, 64-bit
   Postgis 2.5.0dev - r15979 - 2017-10-13 22:01:30
   scripts 2.5.0dev r15979
   GEOS: 3.7.0dev-CAPI-1.11.0 a51a06b1
   PROJ: Rel. 4.9.2, 08 September 2015
   SFCGAL: 1.3.0

 Running tests

  loader/Point .............. ok
  loader/PointM .............. ok
  loader/PointZ .............. ok
  loader/MultiPoint .............. ok
  loader/MultiPointM .............. ok
  loader/MultiPointZ .............. ok
  loader/Arc .............. ok
  loader/ArcM .............. ok
  loader/ArcZ .............. ok
  loader/Polygon .............. ok
  loader/PolygonM .............. ok
  loader/PolygonZ .............. ok
  loader/TSTPolygon ......... ok
  loader/TSIPolygon ......... ok
  loader/TSTIPolygon ......... ok
  loader/PointWithSchema ..... ok
  loader/NoTransPoint ......... ok
  loader/NotReallyMultiPoint ......... ok
  loader/MultiToSinglePoint ......... ok
  loader/ReprojectPts ........ ok
  loader/ReprojectPtsGeog ........ ok
  loader/Latin1 .... ok
  loader/Latin1-implicit .... ok
  loader/mfile .... ok
  dumper/literalsrid ....... ok
  dumper/realtable ....... ok
  affine .. ok
  bestsrid .. ok
  binary .. ok
  boundary .. ok
  cluster .. ok
  concave_hull .. ok
  ctors .. ok
  curvetoline .. ok
  dump .. ok
  dumppoints .. ok
  empty .. ok
  estimatedextent .. failed (diff expected obtained:
 /var/lib/jenkins/workspace/postgis/regress_pgdev/tmp/2_4_pg11.0w64/test_38_diff)
 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 --- estimatedextent_expected    2017-01-01 03:28:16.191591396 +0000
 +++
 /var/lib/jenkins/workspace/postgis/regress_pgdev/tmp/2_4_pg11.0w64/test_38_out
 2017-10-13 22:03:16.164629222 +0000
 @@ -1,41 +1,4 @@
 -WARNING:  stats for "t.g" do not exist
 -#877.1|
 -WARNING:  stats for "t.g" do not exist
 -#877.2|
 -WARNING:  ST_Estimated_Extent signature was deprecated in 2.1.0. Please
 use ST_EstimatedExtent
 -WARNING:  stats for "t.g" do not exist
 -#877.2.deprecated|
 -WARNING:  stats for "t.g" do not exist
 -#877.3||||
 -#877.4|-10.15000|20.15000|-50.40000|30.40000
 -#877.5|-10.15000|20.15000|-50.40000|30.40000
 -WARNING:  stats for "c1.g" do not exist
 -#3391.1||||
 -WARNING:  stats for "c2.g" do not exist
 -#3391.2||||
 -WARNING:  stats for "p.g" do not exist
 -#3391.3||||
 -#3391.4|0.00|1.00|0.00|1.00
 -WARNING:  stats for "c2.g" do not exist
 -#3391.5||||
 -#3391.6|0.00|1.00|0.00|1.00
 -#3391.7|0.00|1.00|0.00|1.00
 -#3391.8|-1.00|0.00|-1.00|0.00
 -#3391.9|-1.01|1.01|-1.01|1.01
 -#3391.10|0.00|1.00|0.00|1.00
 -#3391.11|-1.00|0.00|-1.00|0.00
 -#3391.12|-1.01|2.02|-1.01|2.02
 -WARNING:  stats for "p.g" do not exist
 -#3391.13||||
 -WARNING:  stats for "p.g" do not exist
 -#3391.14||||
 -WARNING:  stats for "c1.g" do not exist
 -#3391.15||||
 -WARNING:  stats for "c1.g" do not exist
 -#3391.16||||
 -#3391.17|0.00|1.00|0.00|1.00
 -WARNING:  stats for "p.g" do not exist
 -#3391.18||||
 -#3391.19|0.00|1.00|0.00|1.00
 -#3391.20|0.00|1.00|0.00|1.00
 -NOTICE:  drop cascades to 2 other objects
 +server closed the connection unexpectedly
 +       This probably means the server terminated abnormally
 +       before or while processing the request.
 +connection to server was lost
 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  forcecurve .. failed (diff expected obtained:
 /var/lib/jenkins/workspace/postgis/regress_pgdev/tmp/2_4_pg11.0w64/test_39_diff)
 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 --- forcecurve_expected 2017-01-01 03:28:18.503591901 +0000
 +++
 /var/lib/jenkins/workspace/postgis/regress_pgdev/tmp/2_4_pg11.0w64/test_39_out
 2017-10-13 22:03:16.192628299 +0000
 @@ -1,12 +1 @@
 }}}


 Then a lot of the rest is just the pg11 trying to get up and then crashing
 again


 {{{
 -ndovm1|{1,2,3,4,5,8}
 -ndovm2|{1,2,4,6,7}
 -#3777|GEOMETRYCOLLECTION EMPTY|1
 -#3777|LINESTRING(0 0,0 1)|1
 -#3777|POINT EMPTY|1
 -#3777|POINT(0 0)|3
 -#3777|POINT(0 1)|1
 -#3777.1|GEOMETRYCOLLECTION EMPTY|1
 -#3777.1|LINESTRING(0 0,0 1)|1
 -#3777.1|POINT EMPTY|1
 -#3777.1|POINT(0 0)|3
 -#3777.1|POINT(0 1)|1
 +psql: FATAL:  the database system is in recovery mode
 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  orientation .. failed (diff expected obtained:
 /var/lib/jenkins/workspace/postgis/regress_pgdev/tmp/2_4_pg11.0w64/test_54_diff)
 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 --- orientation_expected        2017-03-17 00:52:28.667011501 +0000
 +++
 /var/lib/jenkins/workspace/postgis/regress_pgdev/tmp/2_4_pg11.0w64/test_54_out
 2017-10-13 22:03:16.276625529 +0000
 @@ -1,36 +1 @@
 -1|t
 -2|t
 :
 :
 -pgcast_06|POLYGON((0 0,0 1,1 1,1 0,0 0))
 +psql: FATAL:  the database system is in recovery mode
 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  out_geography .. failed (diff expected obtained:
 /var/lib/jenkins/workspace/postgis/regress_pgdev/tmp/2_4_pg11.0w64/test_56_diff)
 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 --- out_geography_expected      2017-01-01 03:28:16.555591475 +0000
 +++
 /var/lib/jenkins/workspace/postgis/regress_pgdev/tmp/2_4_pg11.0w64/test_56_out
 2017-10-13 22:03:16.284625266 +0000
 @@ -1,68 +1 @@

 }}}

 I suspect this might be something that needs fixing upstream so we'll have
 to come up with an example not involving PostGIS that exercises the mess.

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