MCOL-5429 Fix high memory consumption in GROUP_CONCAT() processing.

1. Input and output RowGroup's used in GROUP_CONCAT classes
are currently allocating a raw memory buffer of size equal
to the actual width of the string datatype. As an example,
for the following query:
  SELECT col1, GROUP_CONCAT(col2) FROM t GROUP BY col1;
If col2 is a TEXT field with default width, the input
RowGroup containing the target rows to be concatenated will
assign 64kb of memory for every input row in the RowGroup.
This is wasteful as actual field values in real workloads
would be much smaller. We fix this by enabling the
RowGroup to use the StringStore when the RowGroup contains
long strings.

2. RowAggregation::initialize() allocates a memory buffer
for a NULL row. The size of this buffer is equal to the
row size for the output RowGroup. For the above scenario,
using the default group_concat_max_len (which is a server
variable that sets the maximum length of the GROUP_CONCAT string)
value of 1mb, the buffer size would be
(1mb + 64kb + some additional metadata). If the user sets
group_concat_max_len to a higher value, say 3gb, this buffer
size would be ~3gb. Now if the runtime initiates several
instances of RowAggregation, total memory consumption by
PrimProc could exceed the hardware memory limits causing the
OS OOM to kill the process. We fix this problem by again
enabling the StringStore for the NULL row allocation.

3. In the plugin code in buildAggregateColumn(), there is
an integer overflow when the server group_concat_max_len
variable (which is an uint32_t) is set to a value > INT32_MAX
(such as 3gb) and is assigned to
CalpontSystemCatalog::ColType::colWidth (which is an int32_t).
As a short term fix, we saturate the assigned value to colWidth
to INT32_MAX. Proper fix would be to upgrade
CalpontSystemCatalog::ColType::colWidth to an uint32_t.

dbcon/joblist/groupconcat.cpp

@@ -267,6 +267,14 @@ void GroupConcatInfo::mapColumns(const RowGroup& projRG)
 
     (*k)->fRowGroup = RowGroup(oids.size(), pos, oids, keys, types, csNums, scale, precision,
                                projRG.getStringTableThreshold(), false);
+
+    // MCOL-5429 Use stringstore if the datatype of the groupconcat
+    // field is a long string.
+    if ((*k)->fRowGroup.hasLongString())
+    {
+      (*k)->fRowGroup.setUseStringTable(true);
+    }
+
     (*k)->fMapping = makeMapping(projRG, (*k)->fRowGroup);
   }
 }
@@ -318,10 +326,24 @@ void GroupConcatAgUM::initialize()
 
   fConcator->initialize(fGroupConcat);
 
-  fGroupConcat->fRowGroup.initRow(&fRow, true);
+  // MCOL-5429 Use stringstore if the datatype of the groupconcat
-  fData.reset(new uint8_t[fRow.getSize()]);
+  // field is a long string.
-
+  if (fGroupConcat->fRowGroup.hasLongString())
-  fRow.setData(rowgroup::Row::Pointer(fData.get()));
+  {
+    fRowGroup = fGroupConcat->fRowGroup;
+    fRowGroup.setUseStringTable(true);
+    fRowRGData.reinit(fRowGroup, 1);
+    fRowGroup.setData(&fRowRGData);
+    fRowGroup.resetRowGroup(0);
+    fRowGroup.initRow(&fRow);
+    fRowGroup.getRow(0, &fRow);
+  }
+  else
+  {
+    fGroupConcat->fRowGroup.initRow(&fRow, true);
+    fData.reset(new uint8_t[fRow.getSize()]);
+    fRow.setData(rowgroup::Row::Pointer(fData.get()));
+  }
 }
 
 void GroupConcatAgUM::processRow(const rowgroup::Row& inRow)
@@ -392,7 +414,7 @@ GroupConcator::~GroupConcator()
 void GroupConcator::initialize(const rowgroup::SP_GroupConcat& gcc)
 {
   // MCOL-901 This value comes from the Server and it is
-  // too high(3MB) to allocate it for every instance.
+  // too high(1MB or 3MB by default) to allocate it for every instance.
   fGroupConcatLen = gcc->fSize;
   size_t sepSize = gcc->fSeparator.size();
   fCurrentLength -= sepSize; // XXX Yet I have to find out why spearator has c_str() as nullptr here.

dbcon/joblist/groupconcat.h

@@ -92,6 +92,8 @@ class GroupConcatAgUM : public rowgroup::GroupConcatAg
   boost::scoped_ptr<GroupConcator> fConcator;
   boost::scoped_array<uint8_t> fData;
   rowgroup::Row fRow;
+  rowgroup::RGData fRowRGData;
+  rowgroup::RowGroup fRowGroup;
   bool fNoOrder;
 };
 

dbcon/mysql/ha_mcs_execplan.cpp

@@ -5348,7 +5348,24 @@ ReturnedColumn* buildAggregateColumn(Item* item, gp_walk_info& gwi)
         // Item_func_group_concat* gc = (Item_func_group_concat*)isp;
         CalpontSystemCatalog::ColType ct;
         ct.colDataType = CalpontSystemCatalog::VARCHAR;
-        ct.colWidth = isp->max_length;
+
+        // MCOL-5429 CalpontSystemCatalog::ColType::colWidth is currently
+        // stored as an int32_t (see calpontsystemcatalog.h). However,
+        // Item_sum::max_length is an uint32_t. This means there will be an
+        // integer overflow when Item_sum::max_length > colWidth. This ultimately
+        // causes an array index out of bound in GroupConcator::swapStreamWithStringAndReturnBuf()
+        // in groupconcat.cpp when ExeMgr processes groupconcat. As a temporary
+        // fix, we cap off the max groupconcat length to std::numeric_limits<int32_t>::max().
+        // The proper fix would be to change colWidth type to uint32_t.
+        if (isp->max_length <= std::numeric_limits<int32_t>::max())
+        {
+          ct.colWidth = isp->max_length;
+        }
+        else
+        {
+          ct.colWidth = std::numeric_limits<int32_t>::max();
+        }
+
         ct.precision = 0;
         ac->resultType(ct);
       }

utils/rowgroup/rowaggregation.cpp

@@ -656,7 +656,7 @@ void RowAggregation::resetUDAF(RowUDAFFunctionCol* rowUDAF, uint64_t funcColsIdx
 // Initilalize the data members to meaningful values, setup the hashmap.
 // The fRowGroupOut must have a valid data pointer before this.
 //------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-void RowAggregation::initialize()
+void RowAggregation::initialize(bool hasGroupConcat)
 {
   // Calculate the length of the hashmap key.
   fAggMapKeyCount = fGroupByCols.size();
@@ -694,9 +694,25 @@ void RowAggregation::initialize()
   makeAggFieldsNull(fRow);
 
   // Keep a copy of the null row to initialize new map entries.
-  fRowGroupOut->initRow(&fNullRow, true);
+  // MCOL-5429 Use stringstore if the datatype of the groupconcat
-  fNullRowData.reset(new uint8_t[fNullRow.getSize()]);
+  // field is a long string.
-  fNullRow.setData(rowgroup::Row::Pointer(fNullRowData.get()));
+  if (hasGroupConcat && fRowGroupOut->hasLongString())
+  {
+    fNullRowGroup = *fRowGroupOut;
+    fNullRowGroup.setUseStringTable(true);
+    fNullRowRGData.reinit(fNullRowGroup, 1);
+    fNullRowGroup.setData(&fNullRowRGData);
+    fNullRowGroup.resetRowGroup(0);
+    fNullRowGroup.initRow(&fNullRow);
+    fNullRowGroup.getRow(0, &fNullRow);
+  }
+  else
+  {
+    fRowGroupOut->initRow(&fNullRow, true);
+    fNullRowData.reset(new uint8_t[fNullRow.getSize()]);
+    fNullRow.setData(rowgroup::Row::Pointer(fNullRowData.get()));
+  }
+
   copyRow(fRow, &fNullRow);
 
   // Lazy approach w/o a mapping b/w fFunctionCols idx and fRGContextColl idx
@@ -2413,7 +2429,7 @@ void RowAggregationUM::endOfInput()
 //------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 // Initilalize the Group Concat data
 //------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-void RowAggregationUM::initialize()
+void RowAggregationUM::initialize(bool hasGroupConcat)
 {
   if (fGroupConcat.size() > 0)
     fFunctionColGc = fFunctionCols;
@@ -2423,7 +2439,7 @@ void RowAggregationUM::initialize()
     fKeyRG = fRowGroupIn.truncate(fGroupByCols.size());
   }
 
-  RowAggregation::initialize();
+  RowAggregation::initialize(fGroupConcat.size() > 0);
 }
 
 //------------------------------------------------------------------------------

utils/rowgroup/rowaggregation.h

@@ -529,7 +529,7 @@ class RowAggregation : public messageqcpp::Serializeable
   }
 
  protected:
-  virtual void initialize();
+  virtual void initialize(bool hasGroupConcat = false);
   virtual void initMapData(const Row& row);
   virtual void attachGroupConcatAg();
 
@@ -580,6 +580,8 @@ class RowAggregation : public messageqcpp::Serializeable
   Row fNullRow;
   Row* tmpRow;  // used by the hashers & eq functors
   boost::scoped_array<uint8_t> fNullRowData;
+  rowgroup::RGData fNullRowRGData;
+  rowgroup::RowGroup fNullRowGroup;
 
   std::unique_ptr<RowAggStorage> fRowAggStorage;
 
@@ -724,7 +726,7 @@ class RowAggregationUM : public RowAggregation
 
  protected:
   // virtual methods from base
-  void initialize() override;
+  void initialize(bool hasGroupConcat = false) override;
 
   void attachGroupConcatAg() override;
   void updateEntry(const Row& row, std::vector<mcsv1sdk::mcsv1Context>* rgContextColl = nullptr) override;

utils/rowgroup/rowgroup.h

@@ -1544,6 +1544,11 @@ class RowGroup : public messageqcpp::Serializeable
   inline bool usesStringTable() const;
   inline void setUseStringTable(bool);
 
+  bool hasLongString() const
+  {
+    return hasLongStringField;
+  }
+
   void serializeRGData(messageqcpp::ByteStream&) const;
   inline uint32_t getStringTableThreshold() const;