Return an error on overflow in `do_append_val_inner` by liamzwbao · Pull Request #16201 · apache/datafusion

liamzwbao · 2025-05-28T00:53:09Z

Which issue does this PR close?

ClosesReturn an error instead of panic in ByteGroupValueBuilder::do_append_val_inner #15969.

Rationale for this change

Return proper error message instead of panic

What changes are included in this PR?

Change the trait and implemented methods to return error on overflow, plus a bit of refactoring

Are these changes tested?

Modified related tests for the change

Are there any user-facing changes?

alamb · 2025-05-28T17:21:32Z

Thank you @liamzwbao -- this looks good to me. I'll start some benchmarks on this PR and as long as that looks good this PR looks nice to me

Thanks again

alamb · 2025-05-28T17:22:24Z

🤖 ./gh_compare_branch.shBenchmark Script Running
Linux aal-dev 6.11.0-1013-gcp #13~24.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Wed Apr 2 16:34:16 UTC 2025 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Comparing issue-15969-error-on-buffer-overflow (a4bd49e) to aaae4d7diff
Benchmarks: tpch_mem clickbench_partitioned clickbench_extended
Results will be posted here when complete

alamb · 2025-05-28T18:02:10Z

🤖: Benchmark completed

Details

Comparing HEAD and issue-15969-error-on-buffer-overflow
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Benchmark clickbench_extended.json
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┃ Query ┃ HEAD ┃ issue-15969-error-on-buffer-overflow ┃ Change ┃
┡━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━┩
│ QQuery 0 │ 2043.08ms │ 1979.05ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 1 │ 685.71ms │ 695.03ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 2 │ 1451.05ms │ 1413.97ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 3 │ 724.93ms │ 705.65ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 4 │ 1501.83ms │ 1485.02ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 5 │ 15286.01ms │ 15279.79ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 6 │ 2016.42ms │ 2032.04ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 7 │ 2145.82ms │ 2131.17ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 8 │ 846.46ms │ 853.37ms │ no change │
└──────────────┴────────────┴──────────────────────────────────────┴───────────┘
┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
┃ Benchmark Summary ┃ ┃
┡━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━┩
│ Total Time (HEAD) │ 26701.30ms │
│ Total Time (issue-15969-error-on-buffer-overflow) │ 26575.09ms │
│ Average Time (HEAD) │ 2966.81ms │
│ Average Time (issue-15969-error-on-buffer-overflow) │ 2952.79ms │
│ Queries Faster │ 0 │
│ Queries Slower │ 0 │
│ Queries with No Change │ 9 │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┴────────────┘
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Benchmark clickbench_partitioned.json
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┃ Query ┃ HEAD ┃ issue-15969-error-on-buffer-overflow ┃ Change ┃
┡━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┩
│ QQuery 0 │ 15.60ms │ 15.17ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 1 │ 32.29ms │ 33.24ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 2 │ 79.91ms │ 79.88ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 3 │ 94.92ms │ 96.00ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 4 │ 582.64ms │ 604.45ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 5 │ 822.28ms │ 825.16ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 6 │ 22.79ms │ 23.38ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 7 │ 36.89ms │ 37.41ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 8 │ 912.43ms │ 927.29ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 9 │ 1207.78ms │ 1203.91ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 10 │ 261.50ms │ 261.91ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 11 │ 294.64ms │ 301.42ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 12 │ 895.86ms │ 923.38ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 13 │ 1206.74ms │ 1356.20ms │ 1.12x slower │
│ QQuery 14 │ 836.43ms │ 852.90ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 15 │ 806.78ms │ 831.66ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 16 │ 1724.81ms │ 1735.49ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 17 │ 1583.87ms │ 1628.51ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 18 │ 3037.83ms │ 3135.34ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 19 │ 84.12ms │ 80.66ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 20 │ 1129.32ms │ 1158.37ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 21 │ 1292.12ms │ 1305.73ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 22 │ 2135.78ms │ 2205.85ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 23 │ 7930.68ms │ 7993.95ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 24 │ 460.72ms │ 466.72ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 25 │ 377.81ms │ 386.78ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 26 │ 523.08ms │ 532.90ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 27 │ 1585.75ms │ 1614.10ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 28 │ 12555.85ms │ 13406.98ms │ 1.07x slower │
│ QQuery 29 │ 530.97ms │ 524.66ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 30 │ 795.62ms │ 806.85ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 31 │ 837.65ms │ 859.07ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 32 │ 2648.89ms │ 2707.72ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 33 │ 3381.01ms │ 3383.80ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 34 │ 3491.93ms │ 3410.35ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 35 │ 1324.51ms │ 1326.00ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 36 │ 123.38ms │ 126.24ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 37 │ 55.32ms │ 58.71ms │ 1.06x slower │
│ QQuery 38 │ 120.07ms │ 124.29ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 39 │ 189.96ms │ 202.87ms │ 1.07x slower │
│ QQuery 40 │ 46.37ms │ 49.92ms │ 1.08x slower │
│ QQuery 41 │ 44.84ms │ 46.64ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 42 │ 37.09ms │ 38.02ms │ no change │
└──────────────┴────────────┴──────────────────────────────────────┴──────────────┘
┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
┃ Benchmark Summary ┃ ┃
┡━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━┩
│ Total Time (HEAD) │ 56158.85ms │
│ Total Time (issue-15969-error-on-buffer-overflow) │ 57689.92ms │
│ Average Time (HEAD) │ 1306.02ms │
│ Average Time (issue-15969-error-on-buffer-overflow) │ 1341.63ms │
│ Queries Faster │ 0 │
│ Queries Slower │ 5 │
│ Queries with No Change │ 38 │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┴────────────┘
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Benchmark tpch_mem_sf1.json
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┃ Query ┃ HEAD ┃ issue-15969-error-on-buffer-overflow ┃ Change ┃
┡━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┩
│ QQuery 1 │ 126.84ms │ 123.13ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 2 │ 22.67ms │ 21.84ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 3 │ 33.76ms │ 34.00ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 4 │ 19.92ms │ 19.66ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 5 │ 51.13ms │ 51.80ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 6 │ 11.80ms │ 11.90ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 7 │ 93.97ms │ 93.17ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 8 │ 25.25ms │ 26.00ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 9 │ 59.39ms │ 58.68ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 10 │ 56.39ms │ 57.29ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 11 │ 11.16ms │ 11.50ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 12 │ 40.55ms │ 43.08ms │ 1.06x slower │
│ QQuery 13 │ 26.48ms │ 27.47ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 14 │ 9.42ms │ 9.54ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 15 │ 23.38ms │ 23.74ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 16 │ 22.02ms │ 22.00ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 17 │ 94.83ms │ 95.83ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 18 │ 214.76ms │ 213.61ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 19 │ 25.64ms │ 26.37ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 20 │ 38.23ms │ 37.85ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 21 │ 162.00ms │ 159.81ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 22 │ 16.48ms │ 16.49ms │ no change │
└──────────────┴──────────┴──────────────────────────────────────┴──────────────┘
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┃ Benchmark Summary ┃ ┃
┡━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━┩
│ Total Time (HEAD) │ 1186.08ms │
│ Total Time (issue-15969-error-on-buffer-overflow) │ 1184.77ms │
│ Average Time (HEAD) │ 53.91ms │
│ Average Time (issue-15969-error-on-buffer-overflow) │ 53.85ms │
│ Queries Faster │ 0 │
│ Queries Slower │ 1 │
│ Queries with No Change │ 21 │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┴───────────┘

alamb · 2025-05-29T11:45:41Z

🤖 ./gh_compare_branch.shBenchmark Script Running
Linux aal-dev 6.11.0-1013-gcp #13~24.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Wed Apr 2 16:34:16 UTC 2025 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Comparing issue-15969-error-on-buffer-overflow (a4bd49e) to aaae4d7diff
Benchmarks: tpch_mem clickbench_partitioned clickbench_extended
Results will be posted here when complete

alamb · 2025-05-29T12:25:43Z

🤖: Benchmark completed

Details

Comparing HEAD and issue-15969-error-on-buffer-overflow
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Benchmark clickbench_extended.json
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┃ Query ┃ HEAD ┃ issue-15969-error-on-buffer-overflow ┃ Change ┃
┡━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┩
│ QQuery 0 │ 1887.33ms │ 1940.58ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 1 │ 684.92ms │ 687.43ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 2 │ 1444.53ms │ 1456.54ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 3 │ 701.76ms │ 704.93ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 4 │ 1428.16ms │ 1452.49ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 5 │ 15273.74ms │ 15224.87ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 6 │ 2015.92ms │ 2020.32ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 7 │ 2199.11ms │ 2069.06ms │ +1.06x faster │
│ QQuery 8 │ 857.56ms │ 819.71ms │ no change │
└──────────────┴────────────┴──────────────────────────────────────┴───────────────┘
┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
┃ Benchmark Summary ┃ ┃
┡━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━┩
│ Total Time (HEAD) │ 26493.03ms │
│ Total Time (issue-15969-error-on-buffer-overflow) │ 26375.94ms │
│ Average Time (HEAD) │ 2943.67ms │
│ Average Time (issue-15969-error-on-buffer-overflow) │ 2930.66ms │
│ Queries Faster │ 1 │
│ Queries Slower │ 0 │
│ Queries with No Change │ 8 │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┴────────────┘
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Benchmark clickbench_partitioned.json
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┃ Query ┃ HEAD ┃ issue-15969-error-on-buffer-overflow ┃ Change ┃
┡━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┩
│ QQuery 0 │ 15.49ms │ 14.99ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 1 │ 32.66ms │ 33.01ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 2 │ 80.11ms │ 80.35ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 3 │ 94.94ms │ 99.12ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 4 │ 590.38ms │ 589.43ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 5 │ 835.95ms │ 855.49ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 6 │ 23.60ms │ 22.09ms │ +1.07x faster │
│ QQuery 7 │ 37.16ms │ 39.37ms │ 1.06x slower │
│ QQuery 8 │ 925.56ms │ 910.92ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 9 │ 1177.20ms │ 1191.00ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 10 │ 266.51ms │ 260.19ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 11 │ 301.19ms │ 296.09ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 12 │ 893.72ms │ 907.61ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 13 │ 1382.19ms │ 1400.30ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 14 │ 852.77ms │ 838.60ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 15 │ 874.85ms │ 820.54ms │ +1.07x faster │
│ QQuery 16 │ 1753.65ms │ 1760.22ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 17 │ 1627.37ms │ 1634.89ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 18 │ 3083.97ms │ 3127.15ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 19 │ 83.69ms │ 88.17ms │ 1.05x slower │
│ QQuery 20 │ 1114.32ms │ 1143.83ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 21 │ 1310.41ms │ 1328.95ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 22 │ 2163.55ms │ 2216.49ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 23 │ 7947.99ms │ 8091.50ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 24 │ 458.45ms │ 459.05ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 25 │ 390.67ms │ 389.94ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 26 │ 523.74ms │ 523.69ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 27 │ 1590.71ms │ 1613.82ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 28 │ 12618.24ms │ 13765.25ms │ 1.09x slower │
│ QQuery 29 │ 520.86ms │ 528.83ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 30 │ 806.98ms │ 789.67ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 31 │ 835.33ms │ 859.35ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 32 │ 2650.88ms │ 2642.04ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 33 │ 3329.86ms │ 3396.90ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 34 │ 3378.46ms │ 3360.50ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 35 │ 1306.07ms │ 1269.40ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 36 │ 124.97ms │ 120.25ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 37 │ 56.47ms │ 55.71ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 38 │ 120.68ms │ 124.15ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 39 │ 191.75ms │ 195.43ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 40 │ 45.57ms │ 46.57ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 41 │ 44.92ms │ 43.46ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 42 │ 37.38ms │ 38.82ms │ no change │
└──────────────┴────────────┴──────────────────────────────────────┴───────────────┘
┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
┃ Benchmark Summary ┃ ┃
┡━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━┩
│ Total Time (HEAD) │ 56501.27ms │
│ Total Time (issue-15969-error-on-buffer-overflow) │ 57973.15ms │
│ Average Time (HEAD) │ 1313.98ms │
│ Average Time (issue-15969-error-on-buffer-overflow) │ 1348.21ms │
│ Queries Faster │ 2 │
│ Queries Slower │ 3 │
│ Queries with No Change │ 38 │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┴────────────┘
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Benchmark tpch_mem_sf1.json
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┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
┃ Query ┃ HEAD ┃ issue-15969-error-on-buffer-overflow ┃ Change ┃
┡━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┩
│ QQuery 1 │ 123.90ms │ 120.31ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 2 │ 22.23ms │ 22.23ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 3 │ 34.61ms │ 34.64ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 4 │ 19.75ms │ 20.30ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 5 │ 51.63ms │ 52.35ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 6 │ 12.24ms │ 12.10ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 7 │ 98.16ms │ 93.24ms │ +1.05x faster │
│ QQuery 8 │ 26.41ms │ 25.34ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 9 │ 59.89ms │ 58.94ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 10 │ 56.60ms │ 56.88ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 11 │ 11.53ms │ 11.79ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 12 │ 44.56ms │ 42.07ms │ +1.06x faster │
│ QQuery 13 │ 27.04ms │ 26.97ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 14 │ 9.58ms │ 9.61ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 15 │ 24.00ms │ 23.76ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 16 │ 22.28ms │ 23.00ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 17 │ 95.56ms │ 96.82ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 18 │ 206.83ms │ 203.26ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 19 │ 25.82ms │ 26.62ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 20 │ 36.31ms │ 38.22ms │ 1.05x slower │
│ QQuery 21 │ 160.91ms │ 160.78ms │ no change │
│ QQuery 22 │ 16.05ms │ 16.34ms │ no change │
└──────────────┴──────────┴──────────────────────────────────────┴───────────────┘
┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━┓
┃ Benchmark Summary ┃ ┃
┡━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━┩
│ Total Time (HEAD) │ 1185.88ms │
│ Total Time (issue-15969-error-on-buffer-overflow) │ 1175.56ms │
│ Average Time (HEAD) │ 53.90ms │
│ Average Time (issue-15969-error-on-buffer-overflow) │ 53.43ms │
│ Queries Faster │ 2 │
│ Queries Slower │ 1 │
│ Queries with No Change │ 19 │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┴───────────┘

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