Re: BUG #16111: Unexpected query compilation error “negative bitmapset member not allowed”

On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 10:42:32AM +0000, PG Bug reporting form wrote:
>The following bug has been logged on the website:
>
>Bug reference:      16111
>Logged by:          Tuomas Leikola
>Email address:      tuomas.leikola@gmail.com
>PostgreSQL version: 12.0
>Operating system:   windows, linux
>Description:
>
>I’ve been trying to cook up some kind of online reorganizer, which requires
>looking at rows’ physical locations and rearranging those that are
>suboptimal. In this endeavor, I stumbled on what appears to be a compiler
>bug introduced with multivariate statistics.
>

Yeah, this is a bug in estimate_multivariate_ndistinct, which fails to
ignore system attributes :-(

The attached patch fixes it, but unfortunatly we've missed this round of
minor releases :-( I'll get it pushed in a couple of days.

Thanks for the report and the reproducer, very helpful!

regards

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