Date: 2018-05-01 13:47:45 +0200
From: @joerivanruth
To: SQL devs <>
Version: 11.29.3 (Mar2018)
CC: @njnes

Last updated: 2018-06-20 11:02:13 +0200

Comment 26416

Date: 2018-05-01 13:47:45 +0200
From: @joerivanruth

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.13; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/60.0
Build Identifier:

Given a table t with a single DECIMAL value in it:

 CREATE TABLE t (
     n DECIMAL(8,2)
 );
 INSERT INTO t VALUES (2.00);

I expect the query

 SELECT n/1 FROM t

to return 2.00.

However, if on another server I create a REMOTE TABLE

 CREATE REMOTE TABLE t (
     n DECIMAL(8,2)
 )
 ON '$SLAVE';

running the query against the remote table yields an assertion
failure:

 Assertion failed: (bid == 0 || is_bat_nil(bid) || t == TYPE_any || ATOMtype(_b->ttype) == ATOMtype(t)), function runMALsequence, file /Users/joeri/monets/Mar2018_release/src/monetdb5/mal/mal_interpreter.c, line 661.

This is on the Mar2018_release tag. Interestingly, on the current tip
of the Mar2018 branch (06b77742de12c1cb2ca998f4b04a87cefcf5c1a1) there
is no assertion but an incorrect result:

 sql>SELECT n/1 FROM t;
 +---------------+
 | L2            |
 +===============+
 |       100.000 |
 +---------------+

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

!/bin/sh

FARM="$PWD/FARM"
MASTER=mapi:monetdb://localhost:5501/master
SLAVE=mapi:monetdb://localhost:5502/slave
set -e -x

killall -9 monetdbd mserver5 || true
rm -rf "$FARM"
mkdir "$FARM"

start() {
name="${1*/}"
tmp="${1*:}"
port="${tmp%%/*}"
mserver5 --daemon=yes --dbpath="$FARM/$name" --set mapi_port="$port"
2>&1 >"$FARM/$name.log" &
sleep 1
}

start "$MASTER"
start "$SLAVE"

mclient -d "$SLAVE" <<END
CREATE TABLE t (
n DECIMAL(8,2)
);
INSERT INTO t VALUES (2.00);
END

mclient -d "$MASTER" <<END
CREATE REMOTE TABLE t (
n DECIMAL(8,2)
)
ON '$SLAVE';
END

query() {
mclient -d "$1" <<END
SELECT n/1 FROM t;
END
}

query "$SLAVE"
query "$MASTER"

Actual Results:

Assertion failure on Mar2018_release (see above).
100.000 on 06b77742de12c1cb2ca998f4b04a87cefcf5c1a1

Expected Results:

2.00

Comment 26430

Date: 2018-05-10 12:01:20 +0200
From: MonetDB Mercurial Repository <>

Changeset 439cd2cddb4c made by Niels Nes niels@cwi.nl in the MonetDB repo, refers to this bug.

For complete details, see https//devmonetdborg/hg/MonetDB?cmd=changeset;node=439cd2cddb4c

Changeset description:

fixes for bugs 6594 and 6595

6595, disabled optimizers based on arguments (A...) as
these are passed after the optimizer is run

Also approved output after recent changes on system functions