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Avoid divide-by-zero in regex_selectivity() with long fixed prefix.

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Given a regex pattern with a very long fixed prefix (approaching 500
characters), the result of pow(FIXED_CHAR_SEL, fixed_prefix_len) can
underflow to zero.  Typically the preceding selectivity calculation
would have underflowed as well, so that we compute 0/0 and get NaN.
In released branches this leads to an assertion failure later on.
That doesn't happen in HEAD, for reasons I've not explored yet,
but it's surely still a bug.

To fix, just skip the division when the pow() result is zero, so
that we'll (most likely) return a zero selectivity estimate.  In
the edge cases where "sel" didn't yet underflow, perhaps this
isn't desirable, but I'm not sure that the case is worth spending
a lot of effort on.  The results of regex_selectivity_sub() are
barely worth the electrons they're written on anyway :-(

Per report from Alexander Lakhin.  Back-patch to all supported versions.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/6de0a0c3-ada9-cd0c-3e4e-2fa9964b41e3@gmail.com
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Tom Lane 2021-02-12 16:26:47 -05:00
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@ -6482,9 +6482,18 @@ regex_selectivity(const char *patt, int pattlen, bool case_insensitive,
sel *= FULL_WILDCARD_SEL;
}
/* If there's a fixed prefix, discount its selectivity */
/*
* If there's a fixed prefix, discount its selectivity. We have to be
* careful here since a very long prefix could result in pow's result
* underflowing to zero (in which case "sel" probably has as well).
*/
if (fixed_prefix_len > 0)
sel /= pow(FIXED_CHAR_SEL, fixed_prefix_len);
{
double prefixsel = pow(FIXED_CHAR_SEL, fixed_prefix_len);
if (prefixsel > 0.0)
sel /= prefixsel;
}
/* Make sure result stays in range */
CLAMP_PROBABILITY(sel);