tablefunc: Reject negative number of tuples passed to normal_rand()

The function converted the first argument i.e. the number of tuples to
return into an unsigned integer which turns out to be huge number when
a negative value is passed.  This causes the function to take much
longer time to execute.  Instead, reject a negative value.

(If someone really wants to generate many more result rows, they
should consider adding a bigint or numeric variant.)

While at it, improve SQL test to test the number of tuples returned by
this function.

Author: Ashutosh Bapat <ashutosh.bapat@2ndquadrant.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAG-ACPW3PUUmSnM6cLa9Rw4BEC5cEMKjX8Gogc8gvQcT3cYA1A@mail.gmail.com
This commit is contained in:
Peter Eisentraut 2020-11-25 15:30:18 +01:00
parent 2fbd786c34
commit f73999262e
3 changed files with 18 additions and 6 deletions

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@ -3,12 +3,15 @@ CREATE EXTENSION tablefunc;
-- normal_rand()
-- no easy way to do this for regression testing
--
SELECT avg(normal_rand)::int FROM normal_rand(100, 250, 0.2);
avg
-----
250
SELECT avg(normal_rand)::int, count(*) FROM normal_rand(100, 250, 0.2);
avg | count
-----+-------
250 | 100
(1 row)
-- negative number of tuples
SELECT avg(normal_rand)::int, count(*) FROM normal_rand(-1, 250, 0.2);
ERROR: number of rows cannot be negative
--
-- crosstab()
--

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@ -4,7 +4,9 @@ CREATE EXTENSION tablefunc;
-- normal_rand()
-- no easy way to do this for regression testing
--
SELECT avg(normal_rand)::int FROM normal_rand(100, 250, 0.2);
SELECT avg(normal_rand)::int, count(*) FROM normal_rand(100, 250, 0.2);
-- negative number of tuples
SELECT avg(normal_rand)::int, count(*) FROM normal_rand(-1, 250, 0.2);
--
-- crosstab()

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@ -184,6 +184,8 @@ normal_rand(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
/* stuff done only on the first call of the function */
if (SRF_IS_FIRSTCALL())
{
int32 num_tuples;
/* create a function context for cross-call persistence */
funcctx = SRF_FIRSTCALL_INIT();
@ -193,7 +195,12 @@ normal_rand(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
oldcontext = MemoryContextSwitchTo(funcctx->multi_call_memory_ctx);
/* total number of tuples to be returned */
funcctx->max_calls = PG_GETARG_UINT32(0);
num_tuples = PG_GETARG_INT32(0);
if (num_tuples < 0)
ereport(ERROR,
(errcode(ERRCODE_INVALID_PARAMETER_VALUE),
errmsg("number of rows cannot be negative")));
funcctx->max_calls = num_tuples;
/* allocate memory for user context */
fctx = (normal_rand_fctx *) palloc(sizeof(normal_rand_fctx));