Re: Dimension limit in contrib/cube (dump/restore hazard?)

Hi!

> 28 авг. 2018 г., в 8:29, Andrew Gierth <andrew@tao11.riddles.org.uk> написал(а):
>
> contrib/cube has an arbitrary limit of 100 on the number of dimensions
> in a cube, but it actually enforces that only in cube_in and
> cube_enlarge, with the other cube creation functions happy to create
> cubes of more dimensions.
>
> I haven't actually tested, but this implies that one can create cubes
> that will break dump/restore.
>
> Should this limit be kept, and if so what should it be? (There's
> obviously a limit on the size of indexable cubes)
>
> (Noticed because an irc user was trying to use cubes with 512
> dimensions with partial success)
+1
This can cause very unpleasant fails like

postgres=# create table y as  select cube(array(SELECT random() as a FROM generate_series(1,1000))) from
generate_series(1,1e3,1); 
SELECT 1000
postgres=# create index on y using gist(cube );
ERROR:  index row size 8016 exceeds maximum 8152 for index "y_cube_idx"

postgres=# create table y as  select cube(array(SELECT random() as a FROM generate_series(1,800))) from
generate_series(1,1e3,1); 
SELECT 1000
postgres=# create index on y using gist(cube );
ERROR:  failed to add item to index page in "y_cube_idx"

I belive cube construction from array\arrays should check size of arrays.

Also there are some unexpected cube dimensionality reduction like in cube_enlarge
    if (n > CUBE_MAX_DIM)
        n = CUBE_MAX_DIM;
You wanted larger cube, but got cube of another dimension.

I think we should something like this

diff --git a/contrib/cube/cube.c b/contrib/cube/cube.c
index dfa8465d74..38739b1df2 100644
--- a/contrib/cube/cube.c
+++ b/contrib/cube/cube.c
@@ -151,6 +151,12 @@ cube_a_f8_f8(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
                                 errmsg("cannot work with arrays containing NULLs")));

        dim = ARRNELEMS(ur);
+       if (dim > CUBE_MAX_DIM)
+               ereport(ERROR,
+                               (errcode(ERRCODE_ARRAY_ELEMENT_ERROR),
+                                errmsg("A cube cannot have more than %d dimensions.",
+                                                          CUBE_MAX_DIM)));
+
        if (ARRNELEMS(ll) != dim)
                ereport(ERROR,
                                (errcode(ERRCODE_ARRAY_ELEMENT_ERROR),
@@ -208,6 +214,11 @@ cube_a_f8(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
                                 errmsg("cannot work with arrays containing NULLs")));

        dim = ARRNELEMS(ur);
+       if (dim > CUBE_MAX_DIM)
+               ereport(ERROR,
+                               (errcode(ERRCODE_ARRAY_ELEMENT_ERROR),
+                                errmsg("A cube cannot have more than %d dimensions.",
+                                                          CUBE_MAX_DIM)));

        dur = ARRPTR(ur);

Best regards, Andrey Borodin.