Fix bogus "out of memory" reports in tuplestore.c.

The tuplesort/tuplestore memory management logic assumed that the chunk
allocation overhead for its memtuples array could not increase when
increasing the array size.  This is and always was true for tuplesort,
but we (I, I think) blindly copied that logic into tuplestore.c without
noticing that the assumption failed to hold for the much smaller array
elements used by tuplestore.  Given rather small work_mem, this could
result in an improper complaint about "unexpected out-of-memory situation",
as reported by Brent DeSpain in bug #13530.

The easiest way to fix this is just to increase tuplestore's initial
array size so that the assumption holds.  Rather than relying on magic
constants, though, let's export a #define from aset.c that represents
the safe allocation threshold, and make tuplestore's calculation depend
on that.

Do the same in tuplesort.c to keep the logic looking parallel, even though
tuplesort.c isn't actually at risk at present.  This will keep us from
breaking it if we ever muck with the allocation parameters in aset.c.

Back-patch to all supported versions.  The error message doesn't occur
pre-9.3, not so much because the problem can't happen as because the
pre-9.3 tuplestore code neglected to check for it.  (The chance of
trouble is a great deal larger as of 9.3, though, due to changes in the
array-size-increasing strategy.)  However, allowing LACKMEM() to become
true unexpectedly could still result in less-than-desirable behavior,
so let's patch it all the way back.

diff --git a/src/backend/utils/mmgr/aset.c b/src/backend/utils/mmgr/aset.c
index 71a396d44564d8f3666d139d5be15cee22ff7201..654d16bc8e8ae230093d8e943c64244fc148ccc1 100644 (file)
--- a/src/backend/utils/mmgr/aset.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/mmgr/aset.c
@@ -89,7 +89,8 @@
  *
  * With the current parameters, request sizes up to 8K are treated as chunks,
  * larger requests go into dedicated blocks.  Change ALLOCSET_NUM_FREELISTS
- * to adjust the boundary point.
+ * to adjust the boundary point; and adjust ALLOCSET_SEPARATE_THRESHOLD in
+ * memutils.h to agree.
  *--------------------
  */
 
@@ -385,7 +386,11 @@ AllocSetContextCreate(MemoryContext parent,
         * allocChunkLimit a power of two, because the requested and
         * actually-allocated sizes of any chunk must be on the same side of the
         * limit, else we get confused about whether the chunk is "big".
+        *
+        * Also, allocChunkLimit must not exceed ALLOCSET_SEPARATE_THRESHOLD.
         */
+       Assert(ALLOC_CHUNK_LIMIT == ALLOCSET_SEPARATE_THRESHOLD);
+
        context->allocChunkLimit = ALLOC_CHUNK_LIMIT;
        while (context->allocChunkLimit >
                   (Size) (maxBlockSize - ALLOC_BLOCKHDRSZ - ALLOC_CHUNKHDRSZ))

diff --git a/src/backend/utils/sort/tuplesort.c b/src/backend/utils/sort/tuplesort.c
index 4900796e4058cc42178b3bb4553c6b518c09d9c4..24591e3dc8a7de43ec0d5d5c8e41118d4a8a9755 100644 (file)
--- a/src/backend/utils/sort/tuplesort.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/sort/tuplesort.c
@@ -531,7 +531,14 @@ tuplesort_begin_common(int workMem, bool randomAccess)
        state->tapeset = NULL;
 
        state->memtupcount = 0;
-       state->memtupsize = 1024;       /* initial guess */
+
+       /*
+        * Initial size of array must be more than ALLOCSET_SEPARATE_THRESHOLD;
+        * see comments in grow_memtuples().
+        */
+       state->memtupsize = Max(1024,
+                                               ALLOCSET_SEPARATE_THRESHOLD / sizeof(SortTuple) + 1);
+
        state->memtuples = (SortTuple *) palloc(state->memtupsize * sizeof(SortTuple));
 
        USEMEM(state, GetMemoryChunkSpace(state->memtuples));
@@ -897,7 +904,7 @@ grow_memtuples(Tuplesortstate *state)
                                 state->memtupsize * sizeof(SortTuple));
        USEMEM(state, GetMemoryChunkSpace(state->memtuples));
        if (LACKMEM(state))
-               elog(ERROR, "unexpected out-of-memory situation during sort");
+               elog(ERROR, "unexpected out-of-memory situation in tuplesort");
        return true;
 }
 

diff --git a/src/backend/utils/sort/tuplestore.c b/src/backend/utils/sort/tuplestore.c
index 55c8eca7957592f580e78d16481f0d6f5521c660..4dfc5f6c5f353b67d49e7799e547fbad1eccbe87 100644 (file)
--- a/src/backend/utils/sort/tuplestore.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/sort/tuplestore.c
@@ -261,7 +261,14 @@ tuplestore_begin_common(int eflags, bool interXact, int maxKBytes)
 
        state->memtupdeleted = 0;
        state->memtupcount = 0;
-       state->memtupsize = 1024;       /* initial guess */
+
+       /*
+        * Initial size of array must be more than ALLOCSET_SEPARATE_THRESHOLD;
+        * see comments in grow_memtuples().
+        */
+       state->memtupsize = Max(16384 / sizeof(void *),
+                                                       ALLOCSET_SEPARATE_THRESHOLD / sizeof(void *) + 1);
+
        state->memtuples = (void **) palloc(state->memtupsize * sizeof(void *));
 
        USEMEM(state, GetMemoryChunkSpace(state->memtuples));
@@ -644,6 +651,8 @@ tuplestore_puttuple_common(Tuplestorestate *state, void *tuple)
                                                repalloc(state->memtuples,
                                                                 state->memtupsize * sizeof(void *));
                                        USEMEM(state, GetMemoryChunkSpace(state->memtuples));
+                                       if (LACKMEM(state))
+                                               elog(ERROR, "unexpected out-of-memory situation in tuplestore");
                                }
                        }
 

diff --git a/src/include/utils/memutils.h b/src/include/utils/memutils.h
index d4a9d46dae743a528e54dccc7a46e106fafeeec3..c76d1aad2f45be46432e946fe514764fc3dd68db 100644 (file)
--- a/src/include/utils/memutils.h
+++ b/src/include/utils/memutils.h
@@ -136,4 +136,12 @@ extern MemoryContext AllocSetContextCreate(MemoryContext parent,
 #define ALLOCSET_SMALL_INITSIZE  (1 * 1024)
 #define ALLOCSET_SMALL_MAXSIZE  (8 * 1024)
 
+/*
+ * Threshold above which a request in an AllocSet context is certain to be
+ * allocated separately (and thereby have constant allocation overhead).
+ * Few callers should be interested in this, but tuplesort/tuplestore need
+ * to know it.
+ */
+#define ALLOCSET_SEPARATE_THRESHOLD  8192
+
 #endif   /* MEMUTILS_H */