stats: limit the length of sample values (#7931) (#7982)

executor/analyze_test.go

@@ -15,9 +15,12 @@ package executor_test
 
 import (
 	"fmt"
+	"strings"
+
 	. "github.com/pingcap/check"
 	"github.com/pingcap/tidb/executor"
 	"github.com/pingcap/tidb/model"
+	"github.com/pingcap/tidb/mysql"
 	"github.com/pingcap/tidb/session"
 	"github.com/pingcap/tidb/sessionctx"
 	"github.com/pingcap/tidb/util/testkit"
@@ -84,3 +87,21 @@ func (s *testSuite) TestAnalyzeParameters(c *C) {
 	tbl = s.domain.StatsHandle().GetTableStats(tableInfo)
 	c.Assert(tbl.Columns[1].Len(), Equals, 4)
 }
+
+func (s *testSuite) TestAnalyzeTooLongColumns(c *C) {
+	tk := testkit.NewTestKit(c, s.store)
+	tk.MustExec("use test")
+	tk.MustExec("drop table if exists t")
+	tk.MustExec("create table t(a json)")
+	value := fmt.Sprintf(`{"x":"%s"}`, strings.Repeat("x", mysql.MaxFieldVarCharLength))
+	tk.MustExec(fmt.Sprintf("insert into t values ('%s')", value))
+
+	tk.MustExec("analyze table t")
+	is := executor.GetInfoSchema(tk.Se.(sessionctx.Context))
+	table, err := is.TableByName(model.NewCIStr("test"), model.NewCIStr("t"))
+	c.Assert(err, IsNil)
+	tableInfo := table.Meta()
+	tbl := s.domain.StatsHandle().GetTableStats(tableInfo)
+	c.Assert(tbl.Columns[1].Len(), Equals, 0)
+	c.Assert(tbl.Columns[1].TotColSize, Equals, int64(65559))
+}

statistics/builder.go

@@ -96,19 +96,19 @@ func (b *SortedBuilder) Iterate(data types.Datum) error {
 // BuildColumn builds histogram from samples for column.
 func BuildColumn(ctx sessionctx.Context, numBuckets, id int64, collector *SampleCollector, tp *types.FieldType) (*Histogram, error) {
 	count := collector.Count
-	if count == 0 {
-		return &Histogram{ID: id, NullCount: collector.NullCount}, nil
+	ndv := collector.FMSketch.NDV()
+	if ndv > count {
+		ndv = count
+	}
+	if count == 0 || len(collector.Samples) == 0 {
+		return NewHistogram(id, ndv, collector.NullCount, 0, tp, 0, collector.TotalSize), nil
 	}
 	sc := ctx.GetSessionVars().StmtCtx
 	samples := collector.Samples
 	err := types.SortDatums(sc, samples)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, errors.Trace(err)
 	}
-	ndv := collector.FMSketch.NDV()
-	if ndv > count {
-		ndv = count
-	}
 	hg := NewHistogram(id, ndv, collector.NullCount, 0, tp, int(numBuckets), collector.TotalSize)
 
 	sampleNum := int64(len(samples))

statistics/sample.go

@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ import (
 	"math/rand"
 
 	"github.com/pingcap/tidb/ast"
+	"github.com/pingcap/tidb/mysql"
 	"github.com/pingcap/tidb/sessionctx/stmtctx"
 	"github.com/pingcap/tidb/terror"
 	"github.com/pingcap/tidb/types"
@@ -73,6 +74,8 @@ func SampleCollectorToProto(c *SampleCollector) *tipb.SampleCollector {
 	return collector
 }
 
+const maxSampleValueLength = mysql.MaxFieldVarCharLength / 2
+
 // SampleCollectorFromProto converts SampleCollector from its protobuf representation.
 func SampleCollectorFromProto(collector *tipb.SampleCollector) *SampleCollector {
 	s := &SampleCollector{
@@ -85,7 +88,10 @@ func SampleCollectorFromProto(collector *tipb.SampleCollector) *SampleCollector
 	}
 	s.CMSketch = CMSketchFromProto(collector.CmSketch)
 	for _, val := range collector.Samples {
-		s.Samples = append(s.Samples, types.NewBytesDatum(val))
+		// When store the histogram bucket boundaries to kv, we need to limit the length of the value.
+		if len(val) <= maxSampleValueLength {
+			s.Samples = append(s.Samples, types.NewBytesDatum(val))
+		}
 	}
 	return s
 }