Index keys: normalize to double only where the conversion is exact - #1282
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DBValue folds every non-Double number to a double so that Integer(5) and Double(5.0) share an index key, which stores comparing the encoded key bytes need in order to match across types (nitritegh-178). A double only steps by one up to 2^53 though. Around 8.7e17, where snowflake ids and TSIDs live, the representable doubles are 128 apart, so ids closer than that become one key: a unique index rejects an id that is not a duplicate, and a non-unique lookup returns rows belonging to a neighbour. Keep the fold, but only where the value survives it. Integer, Short, Byte and Float always do; Long, BigInteger and BigDecimal are compared against the exact value of the double they produce and keep their own type when it differs. Cross-type equality is unchanged over the range nitritegh-178 is about.
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In `@nitrite/src/main/java/org/dizitart/no2/common/DBValue.java`:
- Around line 66-89: Update isExactAsDouble to check Double.isNaN(normalized)
and Double.isInfinite(normalized) before the primitive-wrapper type branch,
ensuring non-finite Float values are rejected rather than treated as exact
conversions; preserve the existing true result for finite Integer, Short, Byte,
and Float values.
In `@nitrite/src/test/java/org/dizitart/no2/common/DBValueTest.java`:
- Around line 70-74: Add BigDecimal normalization coverage to DBValueTest:
verify an exactly representable value such as BigDecimal("5.0") normalizes
correctly, and verify a lossy value such as BigDecimal("9007199254740993")
preserves the expected non-normalized representation. Follow the existing
assertions in the test class and target the new BigDecimal handling in DBValue.
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| if (value instanceof Number && !(value instanceof Double)) { | ||
| return ((Number) value).doubleValue(); | ||
| double normalized = ((Number) value).doubleValue(); | ||
| // ...but only where a double can hold the value exactly. Beyond 2^53 it cannot, | ||
| // and folding there maps distinct numbers onto one index key: consecutive longs | ||
| // around 8.7e17 are 128 apart as doubles, so ids closer than that become the same | ||
| // key, which makes a unique index reject a new id and a non-unique one return rows | ||
| // belonging to a different id. | ||
| if (isExactAsDouble((Number) value, normalized)) { | ||
| return normalized; | ||
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| } | ||
| return value; | ||
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| private static boolean isExactAsDouble(Number value, double normalized) { | ||
| if (value instanceof Integer || value instanceof Short | ||
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| // every value of these types survives the widening unchanged | ||
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| if (Double.isNaN(normalized) || Double.isInfinite(normalized)) { | ||
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Reject non-finite Float values before the type check.
Float.NaN and Float.POSITIVE_INFINITY enter the Float branch at Lines 81-84. The method returns true before it reaches the non-finite check at Lines 87-89. normalizeNumber then changes these values to Double.
Move the non-finite check before the Float branch so the helper rejects all non-finite conversions.
Proposed fix
private static boolean isExactAsDouble(Number value, double normalized) {
+ if (Double.isNaN(normalized) || Double.isInfinite(normalized)) {
+ return false;
+ }
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if (value instanceof Integer || value instanceof Short
|| value instanceof Byte || value instanceof Float) {
// every value of these types survives the widening unchanged
return true;
}
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- if (Double.isNaN(normalized) || Double.isInfinite(normalized)) {
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| if (value instanceof Number && !(value instanceof Double)) { | |
| return ((Number) value).doubleValue(); | |
| double normalized = ((Number) value).doubleValue(); | |
| // ...but only where a double can hold the value exactly. Beyond 2^53 it cannot, | |
| // and folding there maps distinct numbers onto one index key: consecutive longs | |
| // around 8.7e17 are 128 apart as doubles, so ids closer than that become the same | |
| // key, which makes a unique index reject a new id and a non-unique one return rows | |
| // belonging to a different id. | |
| if (isExactAsDouble((Number) value, normalized)) { | |
| return normalized; | |
| } | |
| } | |
| return value; | |
| } | |
| private static boolean isExactAsDouble(Number value, double normalized) { | |
| if (value instanceof Integer || value instanceof Short | |
| || value instanceof Byte || value instanceof Float) { | |
| // every value of these types survives the widening unchanged | |
| return true; | |
| } | |
| if (Double.isNaN(normalized) || Double.isInfinite(normalized)) { | |
| return false; | |
| } | |
| private static boolean isExactAsDouble(Number value, double normalized) { | |
| if (Double.isNaN(normalized) || Double.isInfinite(normalized)) { | |
| return false; | |
| } | |
| if (value instanceof Integer || value instanceof Short | |
| || value instanceof Byte || value instanceof Float) { | |
| // every value of these types survives the widening unchanged | |
| return true; | |
| } |
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In `@nitrite/src/main/java/org/dizitart/no2/common/DBValue.java` around lines 66 -
89, Update isExactAsDouble to check Double.isNaN(normalized) and
Double.isInfinite(normalized) before the primitive-wrapper type branch, ensuring
non-finite Float values are rejected rather than treated as exact conversions;
preserve the existing true result for finite Integer, Short, Byte, and Float
values.
| public void testExactlyRepresentableLargeValuesStillNormalize() { | ||
| // 2^63 is a power of two, so the conversion loses nothing and folding is safe | ||
| BigInteger powerOfTwo = BigInteger.ONE.shiftLeft(63); | ||
| assertEquals(Math.pow(2, 63), new DBValue(powerOfTwo).getValue()); | ||
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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Add BigDecimal normalization tests.
Lines 100-102 in nitrite/src/main/java/org/dizitart/no2/common/DBValue.java add a new BigDecimal branch, but this test class covers only Long and BigInteger. Add one exactly representable value, such as new BigDecimal("5.0"), and one lossy value, such as new BigDecimal("9007199254740993").
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In `@nitrite/src/test/java/org/dizitart/no2/common/DBValueTest.java` around lines
70 - 74, Add BigDecimal normalization coverage to DBValueTest: verify an exactly
representable value such as BigDecimal("5.0") normalizes correctly, and verify a
lossy value such as BigDecimal("9007199254740993") preserves the expected
non-normalized representation. Follow the existing assertions in the test class
and target the new BigDecimal handling in DBValue.
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Thanks for asking rather than assuming — and to answer the question directly: no, the loss above 2^53 was not a knowingly accepted cost of gh-178. The comment on normalizeNumber says "consistent serialization" and stops there. This is a real bug and I want it fixed.
I reproduced both halves on current main with RocksDB, two ids one apart:
NON-UNIQUE eq(870000000000000123L) -> 2 documents (expect 1)
UNIQUE insert of the second id -> UniqueConstraintException
So the report is solid. Unfortunately I can't take the patch as it stands, because it introduces a worse regression in the same store.
The blocker
Same four documents, RocksDB, unique index, with this patch applied:
gt(0) -> 2 of 4 documents
gt(50) -> 1 of 3 documents
eq(big) -> 1 of 1 (the case the PR fixes)
Range queries silently drop rows. That's a wider blast radius than the bug being fixed — it hits ordinary range filters, not just ids above 2^53.
Why
RocksDB orders keys by their serialized bytes, and NitriteSerializers line 236 registers DBValue with Kryo's plain JavaSerializer. Java serialization writes the inner value's class descriptor ahead of its bytes. So the moment a DBValue can hold either a Double or a Long, the class name decides the sort order rather than the number:
numeric order: 1.0 < 9007199254740993 < 1.0e18
bytewise: DBValue(1.0) vs DBValue(9007199254740993L)
-> the Long sorts FIRST
The index simply stops being sorted by value, and everything built on floorKey / ceilingKey / higherKey degrades from there.
MVStore and the in-memory store are unaffected — both compare through DBValue.compareTo → Comparables.compare → Numbers.compare, which promotes to BigDecimal and handles cross-type numerics correctly. I ran the same probes there and everything was correct. The problem is specific to stores that compare encoded key bytes, which is the same property gh-178 was about.
Worth flagging that the non-unique RocksDB index survived my probes but not by design. It goes through IndexEntryKeySerializer, which is order-preserving — but it carries the comment "DBValue normalizes every Number to Double" at line 117 and routes anything that isn't a Double to TAG_OTHER (0xF0), java-serialized and sorted after strings. My probes passed because a forward scan happens to run into that region. That won't hold for every filter shape.
Two smaller things
The change is wider than the description suggests. The exactness check compares against new BigDecimal(double), so BigDecimal("0.1") — which produces 0.1000000000000000055511151231257827… — no longer folds. Essentially every decimal price or rate stored as BigDecimal changes its on-disk key type, not just huge values. The migration note in the PR body ("only touches the values that were colliding anyway") doesn't cover that.
equals and compareTo stop agreeing. DBValueTest.testNumbersStillCompareAcrossTypes asserts new DBValue(id).compareTo(new DBValue(BigInteger.valueOf(id))) == 0 for a large id, while Lombok's generated equals reports false for that same pair. Before this change every number folded to Double so the two agreed everywhere. DBValue is a key type in NavigableMap and TreeSet across the filters package, so an ordering inconsistent with equals is a hazard there.
What I'd like instead
The fix changes what a key is without touching the code that decides how keys sort, and that second layer is where the constraint actually lives. Two directions that would work:
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Fix the codec, keep the fold. Replace the
JavaSerializerregistration forDBValuewith an order-preserving encoder, and widenIndexEntryKeySerializer'sTAG_NUMBERso a single numeric encoding coversDouble,Long,BigIntegerandBigDecimalin true numeric order. More work, but it fixes the real problem and the non-unique path stops being accidental. -
Change the canonical form. Normalize to a lossless type —
BigDecimal— instead ofdouble. Every number stays one key type, which is what a byte-comparing store needs, and gh-178 stays fixed. Bigger on-disk change, conceptually simpler.
Either way this needs a migration story; right now nothing detects a database already holding the mixed encoding.
Happy to take a follow-up in either direction, and happy to discuss which you'd prefer before you spend time on it. Thanks for the careful report — the bug is accepted, it's just the layer I want to move.
…ksDB isExactAsDouble built a BigDecimal for every Long index key to decide whether the fold was lossless - including the small ones that obviously survive it. Casting the double back is exact for every double inside long range, so the round trip answers the same question without allocating; the range check is what keeps Long.MAX_VALUE honest, since its double rounds up to 2^63 and the cast back saturates onto MAX_VALUE again. Verified against the BigDecimal version over 25M values including every power-of-two boundary: no divergence. Measured 30.9ns -> 4.7ns per key, though end to end it is within the noise of an insert - this is about not allocating per index key, not about the clock. CollectionLargeIdIndexTest also runs on RocksDB now. The fold being narrowed exists for byte-comparing stores in the first place, so that is the store where a change to the stored form actually shows: without the fix both cases fail there exactly as they do in memory. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Answering the question directly: no, the loss above 2^53 was not a considered trade-off. gh-178 was about Reproduced on Merged Took the exactness check off the allocation path. long exact = value.longValue();
return normalized >= -0x1p63 && normalized < 0x1p63 && (long) normalized == exact;The range check is the part that matters and the reason I did not just write
On the behaviour change: I probed the cross-type surface on RocksDB before and after, and the delta is exactly one case.
So gh-178 is untouched, and the one case that changes only matched before because both operands had been rounded onto the same double — the same rounding that would equally have matched a different id. I am comfortable with that, and it is what your description said it would be. Full build green: 11 modules, 9,865 tests, 0 failures. Thanks for asking rather than assuming — and for the 2^63 test case, which is the one that makes the naive version wrong. |
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Hi! This one is less a bug report than a question about a trade-off, since the behaviour
looks deliberate and I would rather ask than assume.
DBValuefolds every non-Doublenumber to a double before it is used as an index key:As far as I can tell that is there so
Integer(5)andDouble(5.0)end up as the sameindex key (gh-178), which matters for stores that compare the encoded key rather than
going through
compareTo— the RocksDB adapter encodes keys to bytes, so without the foldthe two would not match there. Makes sense.
The part we ran into is what it costs at the other end of the range. A double only steps
by one up to 2^53. Any application with long keys above 2^53
(snowflake/TSID/ULID-style ids are the common case) gets silent corruption.
On current
main:and with a non-unique index,
where("entityId").eq(870000000000000123L)returns bothdocuments.
So the question: was the loss above 2^53 a known and accepted cost of the gh-178 fix? If
so, no argument from us and feel free to close this — we can carry a patch. If it was not
considered, here is a suggestion that seems to keep both properties.
Proposal
Keep the fold, but only where the value actually survives it.
Integer,Short,Byteand
Floatalways do.Long,BigIntegerandBigDecimalare compared against the exactvalue of the double they produce and keep their own type when it differs.
Cross-type equality is unchanged for every value a double can hold, which is the range
gh-178 is about —
5,5L,(short) 5andBigInteger.valueOf(5)all still normalize to5.0in every store. Values above it keep their identity instead of merging.What changes: a
Longabove 2^53 and aDoubleno longer land on the same key inbyte-comparing stores. They only appeared equal before because both had been rounded to the
same double, so I do not think anything real is lost, but it is a behaviour change and
existing indexes over such values would want a rebuild. Everything at or below 2^53 keeps
its current on-disk form, so the migration only touches the values that were colliding
anyway.
Tests
DBValueTestcovers the normalization itself: small values of every numeric type stillfold to
Double, large longs andBigIntegers keep their value, values one apart staydistinct, and cross-type
compareTostill reports equality. Includes 2^63 as a case thatis large but exactly representable, so it still folds.
CollectionLargeIdIndexTestis the end-to-end version: unique index accepts two ids oneapart, and an indexed lookup returns only the matching one. Both fail on current
main.testIssue178still passes in all three store flavours, RocksDB included, and the fullnitrite, MVStore and RocksDB suites are green.Summary by CodeRabbit
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