Re: fix_PGSTAT_NUM_TABENTRIES_macro patch

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Mark Dilger <markdilger(at)yahoo(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: fix_PGSTAT_NUM_TABENTRIES_macro patch
Date: 2014-01-02 22:03:16
Message-ID: 17455.1388700196@sss.pgh.pa.us
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I wrote:
> It occurs to me that, rather than trying to improve the struct definition
> methodology, maybe we should just add static asserts to catch any
> inconsistency here. It wouldn't be that hard:

> #define PGSTAT_MAX_MSG_SIZE 1000
> #define PGSTAT_MSG_PAYLOAD (PGSTAT_MAX_MSG_SIZE - sizeof(PgStat_MsgHdr))
> ... all else in pgstat.h as before ...

> StaticAssertStmt(sizeof(PgStat_MsgTabstat) <= PGSTAT_MAX_MSG_SIZE,
> 'bad PgStat_MsgTabstat size');
> ... and similarly for other pgstat message structs ...

After further thought it seems to me that this is a desirable approach,
because it is a direct check of the property we want, and will complain
about *any* mistake that results in too-large struct sizes. The other
ideas that were kicked around upthread still left a lot of ways to mess up
the array size calculations, for instance referencing the wrong array
element type in the sizeof calculation. So unless anyone has a concrete
objection, I'll go put in something like this along with Mark's fix.

regards, tom lane

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