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From: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
To: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut@gmail.com>
Cc: jungleboogie0@gmail.com
Cc: pgsql-bugs@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Re: BUG #15964: vacuumdb.c:187:10: error: use of undeclared identifier 'FD_SETSIZE'
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2019 10:58:54 +0900
Message-ID: <20190821015854.GD1684@paquier.xyz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190820160553.37nd5jxs4dk2qujy@alap3.anarazel.de>
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	<23514.1566189171@sss.pgh.pa.us>
	<20190819051251.GB18166@paquier.xyz>
	<20190820160553.37nd5jxs4dk2qujy@alap3.anarazel.de>

On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 09:05:53AM -0700, Andres Freund wrote:
> On 2019-08-19 14:12:51 +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
>> - 0002 makes vacuumdb and reindexdb fail when trying to assign a
>> socket with an unsupported range.  Should this bit be backpatched?  We
>> are doing that for vacuumdb for some time now, and the error is
>> confusing so I would prefer fixing it on older branches as well.
> 
> Yea, I think we clearly need to. The code right now essentially is a
> wild write, albeit with a somewhat limited range of what it can impact.

Okay.

> I think the error message ought be reformulated, so users have a chance
> to actually understand what they need to change to avoid the error. At
> least something roughly like "too many jobs for this platform's select()".

pgbench needs an extra fix then?

> ISTM that we should fail in ParallelSlotsSetup(), rather than
> ParallelSlotsGetIdle() though? That's always going to be earlier, and
> there's no way to get into the problematic situation at a later point,
> no?

Okay, done this way.  What do you think about the attached?
--
Michael

Attachments:

  [text/x-diff] parallel-slot-fdlimit-v3.patch (3.3K, ../20190821015854.GD1684@paquier.xyz/2-parallel-slot-fdlimit-v3.patch)
  download | inline diff:
diff --git a/src/bin/pgbench/pgbench.c b/src/bin/pgbench/pgbench.c
index 570cf3306a..fbf1370d61 100644
--- a/src/bin/pgbench/pgbench.c
+++ b/src/bin/pgbench/pgbench.c
@@ -6420,7 +6420,7 @@ add_socket_to_set(socket_set *sa, int fd, int idx)
 		 * Doing a hard exit here is a bit grotty, but it doesn't seem worth
 		 * complicating the API to make it less grotty.
 		 */
-		fprintf(stderr, "too many client connections for select()\n");
+		fprintf(stderr, "too many jobs for this platform's select()\n");
 		exit(1);
 	}
 	FD_SET(fd, &sa->fds);
diff --git a/src/bin/scripts/reindexdb.c b/src/bin/scripts/reindexdb.c
index f93f7dd5fe..f00aec15de 100644
--- a/src/bin/scripts/reindexdb.c
+++ b/src/bin/scripts/reindexdb.c
@@ -153,12 +153,6 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[])
 					pg_log_error("number of parallel jobs must be at least 1");
 					exit(1);
 				}
-				if (concurrentCons > ParallelSlotsMax())
-				{
-					pg_log_error("too many parallel jobs requested (maximum: %d)",
-								 ParallelSlotsMax());
-					exit(1);
-				}
 				break;
 			case 'v':
 				verbose = true;
diff --git a/src/bin/scripts/scripts_parallel.c b/src/bin/scripts/scripts_parallel.c
index 10379a1f99..e0643bc914 100644
--- a/src/bin/scripts/scripts_parallel.c
+++ b/src/bin/scripts/scripts_parallel.c
@@ -94,20 +94,6 @@ select_loop(int maxFd, fd_set *workerset, bool *aborting)
 	return i;
 }
 
-/*
- * ParallelSlotsMax
- *		Returns the maximum number of parallel slots supported.
- *
- * Note that this is included here as FD_SETSIZE is declared in sys/select.h
- * per POSIX.
- */
-int
-ParallelSlotsMax(void)
-{
-	/* leave some room for pre-existing fds */
-	return FD_SETSIZE - 10;
-}
-
 /*
  * ParallelSlotsGetIdle
  *		Return a connection slot that is ready to execute a command.
@@ -246,6 +232,18 @@ ParallelSlotsSetup(const char *dbname, const char *host, const char *port,
 		{
 			conn = connectDatabase(dbname, host, port, username, prompt_password,
 								   progname, echo, false, true);
+
+			/*
+			 * Fail immediately if trying to use an index in an unsupported
+			 * range.  Doing a hard exit here is not beautiful, but that's
+			 * not worth complicating the logic.
+			 */
+			if (PQsocket(conn) >= FD_SETSIZE)
+			{
+				fprintf(stderr, "too many jobs for this platform's select()\n");
+				exit(1);
+			}
+
 			init_slot(slots + i, conn);
 		}
 	}
diff --git a/src/bin/scripts/scripts_parallel.h b/src/bin/scripts/scripts_parallel.h
index 8042345072..ab82c5e6a9 100644
--- a/src/bin/scripts/scripts_parallel.h
+++ b/src/bin/scripts/scripts_parallel.h
@@ -21,8 +21,6 @@ typedef struct ParallelSlot
 	bool		isFree;			/* Is it known to be idle? */
 } ParallelSlot;
 
-extern int	ParallelSlotsMax(void);
-
 extern ParallelSlot *ParallelSlotsGetIdle(ParallelSlot *slots, int numslots);
 
 extern ParallelSlot *ParallelSlotsSetup(const char *dbname, const char *host,
diff --git a/src/bin/scripts/vacuumdb.c b/src/bin/scripts/vacuumdb.c
index c5c38692ed..2c7219239f 100644
--- a/src/bin/scripts/vacuumdb.c
+++ b/src/bin/scripts/vacuumdb.c
@@ -181,12 +181,6 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[])
 					pg_log_error("number of parallel jobs must be at least 1");
 					exit(1);
 				}
-				if (concurrentCons > ParallelSlotsMax())
-				{
-					pg_log_error("too many parallel jobs requested (maximum: %d)",
-								 ParallelSlotsMax());
-					exit(1);
-				}
 				break;
 			case 2:
 				maintenance_db = pg_strdup(optarg);

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