Re: pgsql: Improve accounting for memory used by shared hash tables - Mailing list pgsql-committers

On Thu, 3 Apr 2025 at 04:16, Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@postgresql.org> wrote:
> Improve accounting for memory used by shared hash tables

I've not looked into why, but this is causing an issue in the
join_rel_hash during add_join_rel(). See the attached script.

ERROR:  pfree called with invalid pointer 0x60a15edc44e0 (header
0x0000002000000008)

bisecting found this commit.

#0  BogusFree (pointer=0x5b36cd85a5e8) at ../src/backend/utils/mmgr/mcxt.c:288
        __func__ = "BogusFree"
#1  0x00005b36c3d70e74 in dir_realloc (hashp=0x5b36cd4c0aa0) at
../src/backend/utils/hash/dynahash.c:1787
        new_dirsize = <optimized out>
        p = 0x5b36cd4c0b30
        old_p = 0x5b36cd85a5e8
        new_dsize = <optimized out>
        old_dirsize = <optimized out>
        p = <optimized out>
        old_p = <optimized out>
        new_dsize = <optimized out>
        old_dirsize = <optimized out>
        new_dirsize = <optimized out>
        _vstart = <optimized out>
        _val = <optimized out>
        _len = <optimized out>
        _start = <optimized out>
        _stop = <optimized out>
#2  expand_table (hashp=0x5b36cd4c0aa0) at
../src/backend/utils/hash/dynahash.c:1691
        hctl = 0x5b36cd85a298
        old_bucket = <optimized out>
        newlink = <optimized out>
        nextElement = <optimized out>
        old_seg = <optimized out>
        new_bucket = 65536
        new_segnum = 256
        new_segndx = 0
        currElement = <optimized out>
        new_seg = <optimized out>
        old_segnum = <optimized out>
        old_segndx = <optimized out>
        oldlink = <optimized out>
        hctl = <optimized out>
        old_seg = <optimized out>
        new_seg = <optimized out>
        old_bucket = <optimized out>
        new_bucket = <optimized out>
        new_segnum = <optimized out>
        new_segndx = <optimized out>
        old_segnum = <optimized out>
        old_segndx = <optimized out>
        oldlink = <optimized out>
        newlink = <optimized out>
        currElement = <optimized out>
        nextElement = <optimized out>
#3  hash_search_with_hash_value (hashp=0x5b36cd4c0aa0,
keyPtr=0x5b3716ccc6f0, hashvalue=2952019273, action=<optimized out>,
foundPtr=<optimized out>) at ../src/backend/utils/hash/dynahash.c:1112
        hctl = 0x5b36cd85a298
        freelist_idx = 0
        keysize = <optimized out>
        currBucket = <optimized out>
        prevBucketPtr = <optimized out>
        match = <optimized out>
        __func__ = "hash_search_with_hash_value"
#4  0x00005b36c3d71031 in hash_search (hashp=<optimized out>,
keyPtr=<optimized out>, action=<optimized out>, foundPtr=<optimized
out>) at ../src/backend/utils/hash/dynahash.c:1069
No locals.
#5  0x00005b36c3b195b3 in add_join_rel (root=0x5b36cd420d28,
joinrel=0x5b3716ccc6e8) at ../src/backend/optimizer/util/relnode.c:638
        hentry = <optimized out>
        found = false

David