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fix(serializers): bound AutoSerializer set revival against hash floods (LAB-12954) - #721
AutoSerializer now bounds the sets and frozensets it revives. A stored set may hold at most 1,024 elements that are neither str nor bytes, at most 8 elements on one hash value, "" and b"" at most once each, and no two frozensets on one hash (nor two tuples, once a frozenset sits anywhere inside one of its tuples). The reader checks them before set() / frozenset() builds anything and raises SerializationError otherwise. The writer applies the same bounds and raises TypeError, so a set over them fails loudly at write instead of missing on every read.
Also: _keys_tested_by in tests/unit/test_auto_interop_decode.py now matches any word-character dunder literal (__\w+__), so a hook that gains a key such as "__new_type__" or "__type2__" fails test_each_readers_rust_marker_keys_are_its_hooks. The old __[a-z]+__ let both through.
Motivation
The __set__ branch of _auto_object_hook built the set from an untrusted list with no bound. Ints, floats, UUIDs and tuples hash without a per-process secret, so whoever can write a cache entry could choose element hashes that make one read quadratic in the set's size. A stored set is a list, so it can also repeat an element, and "" and b"" hash to 0 in every process. Three shapes follow:
One shared hash. Each insert calls __eq__ on every earlier element. A UUID's __eq__ runs in Python; a tuple's can compare a long shared prefix.
Distinct hashes whose probe sequences merge. CPython's perturbation is spent after 13 probes, after which every sequence walks the same cycle, so constructed ints walk one shared chain with no __eq__ at all.
Repeated elements. A duplicate never grows the table, so copies of an element at the end of such a chain each walk the whole chain before the set drops them.
The fix has four parts:
Count (bounds the merged-probe chain): elements that are neither str nor bytes, copies included, counted with list.count over their types, in C. Above 1,024 the set is refused before any element is hashed.
Empty values: "" and b"" are the only str and bytes with a predictable hash (0), so a stored set may hold each at most once, as an honest one does.
Same-hash bound (bounds __eq__ calls): the hashes of the elements that are neither str nor bytes are sorted, not tallied in a dict or set, since a table keyed by the hashes would itself be floodable. More than 8 on one hash, copies included, refuses the set. 8 admits honest collisions: hash(-1) == hash(-2), so 3-D offset tuples over -1 and -2 put 8 tuples on one hash. No type is exempt: about 200 distinct floats can share one hash, and repeated ints defeat any per-type shortcut.
Nested frozensets (bounds the cost of each __eq__): two frozensets compare by looking up each element of one in the other, and each lookup can compare same-hash frozensets one level down, so nested same-hash frozensets cost more with every level. No two frozensets in a set may share a hash, nor may two tuples once a frozenset sits anywhere inside a tuple of the set (found by walking the tuples a level at a time in C passes). Tuples holding only tuples and scalars compare in linear time and keep the limit of 8, so grid edges such as ((0, -1), (0, -2)) still round-trip.
Each figure is decode time per byte for a document of about 1 MB, divided by the same for an honest set of the same size and element type. Before is the code before this PR, with no guard on either side; for the two rows marked, it is an earlier head of this PR. After is this head, with the guard on both sides.
Forged set
Before
After
1,024 UUIDs on one hash
31x
refused
256 tuples on one hash sharing a 4 KB prefix
8.4x
refused
8,000 UUIDs on one hash, against 8,000 that do not collide
~140x, growing quadratically with the count
refused
nested same-hash frozensets, 8 per level (bare or each in a 1-tuple)
grows with each level of nesting
refused
ints on one merged chain plus ~300k copies of ""
43–76x (earlier head)
refused
a chain of 306 ints plus 719 copies of its last int
8.8x (earlier head)
refused
groups of 8 UUIDs, or 8 long-prefix tuples, on one hash
quadratic
1.0x, 1.1x
a chain of 306 ints plus up to 7 copies each of its latest ints
What the guard costs an honest set. Each figure is the extra time with the guard on, over the same call with it off, for one cached set with integrity on:
Honest set
serialize()
deserialize()
100k strings
+15%
+14%
1,024 short strings
+24%
+33%
set(range(1024))
+97%
+197%
1,024 random 63-bit ints
+271%
+399%
Sorting the hashes of elements that are not strings dominates. It is the price of checking repeated ints, and it touches nothing but set markers.
Maps with keys other than str or bytes are not reachable on this path: the Auto reader decodes with strict_map_key=True.
Type of Change
Bug fix (non-breaking)
New feature (non-breaking)
Breaking change
Performance improvement
Documentation update
Refactoring (no behavior change)
CI/CD or tooling change
Security Checklist
No secrets, credentials, or API keys in code or comments
No hardcoded sensitive data (use env vars or config)
User input is validated/sanitized where applicable
Error messages don't leak sensitive information (the refusals name only the bound)
Changes reviewed by security team (@cachekit-io/security)
No new unsafe blocks (no Rust changed)
No cryptographic code touched
No FFI boundary changed
Documentation Validation Checklist
docs/serializers/auto.md: new Set Size Bound section (the bounds, what they count, why, what each side raises, what a check costs)
docs/error-codes.md: Serialization unsupported type names the writer's refusal and links the section
No new code examples
Testing
Unit tests added: TestAutoSerializerSetHashFloodBound in tests/unit/test_auto_serializer_new_types.py
same-hash UUID and tuple sets (set and frozenset) are refused with zero__eq__ calls and one __hash__ per element (counting __hash__ / __eq__)
a set over the count is refused with zero hashes; the count ignores str and bytes (2,000 of each plus 1,024 ints decode, plus 1,025 ints refuse)
3-D -1/-2 offset tuples (8 on one hash) round-trip; 4-D offsets are refused at write; 9 same-hash UUIDs are refused at read and 8 decode
ints, floats and UUIDs on one hash count together, copies included: 8 copies of an int beside the original are refused, 7 decode
"" or b"" twice is refused on read; one of each round-trips
two frozensets on one hash, bare or each in a 1-tuple, are refused on read with zero __eq__ calls; the writer refuses {frozenset({-1}), frozenset({-2})}, tuples holding frozensets on one hash at any depth, and same-hash tuples beside one that holds a frozenset; same-hash grid-edge tuples round-trip
a 1,024-UUID set at the bound hashes each element exactly twice and compares none
round trip of every set shape at the bound, as set and frozenset: ints, int64 floor, floats, UUIDs, tuples, frozensets, datetimes, mixed scalars, 1,024 ints with 10,000 strings and bytes, a str subclass, nested tuples holding frozensets
the writer refuses 1,025 with TypeError, for set and frozenset, and does not count str subclasses
Mutation check: 25 mutants of the guard and writer (bounds off by one, checks removed or narrowed, types exempted, the empty-value rule loosened on both branches, the nested-frozenset rule narrowed or widened, the writer's checks removed, guard not called). 24 are killed; the survivor drops the writer's C pre-count, which changes no result, only puts back the slower loop.
Mutation check on the regex: obj.get("__new_type__") and obj.get("__type2__") added to the hook now fail test_each_readers_rust_marker_keys_are_its_hooks; with the old regex both passed.
Full suite excluding slow and fuzzing: 8,607 passed, 109 skipped
No test regressions
Backward Compatibility
API is backward compatible OR breaking change is documented
No removal of public APIs
Known residual, unchanged in kind: a value whose round trip is already lossy can now be refused on read. Nine or more pandas Timestamps in one set that differ only below the microsecond read back as one datetime, so the reader sees nine equal elements on one hash; two frozensets of such Timestamps read back as two equal frozensets. Both are refused on read (pinned by test_timestamps_that_read_back_equal_are_refused_on_read_past_the_bounds), and the error names this cause. Before, the set read back silently with fewer elements; now it reads as a miss and is recomputed. Fixing it means the writer keeping or refusing nanoseconds, a separate change. The same holds for an aware datetime at fold=1, which reads back with its offset but without fold.
One behaviour change, documented in auto.md: a set or frozenset with more than 1,024 elements that are neither strings nor bytes, more than 8 on one hash value, or two frozensets on one hash, can no longer be cached with serializer='auto'. Writing one raises TypeError (under @cache, the result is returned uncached and the failure logged, as for any unsupported value). An entry written by an earlier version holding such a set reads as a miss and is recomputed. Sets of strings or bytes of any size are unaffected. To cache more elements, cache them as a list.
The __set__ branch of _auto_object_hook built set()/frozenset() from an
untrusted element list with no bound. Ints, floats, UUIDs and tuples hash
without a per-process secret, so a forged entry could choose element hashes
that make the build quadratic: by sharing one hash (each insert then calls
__eq__ on every earlier element), or by distinct hashes whose probe sequences
merge onto one cycle (no __eq__ at all).
The reader now counts the elements that are neither str nor bytes and refuses
more than 1024, and refuses a set where three non-int, non-float elements share
a hash. The hash check sorts the hashes rather than tallying them in a table,
which would itself be floodable. Ints and floats skip it: they compare in C and
only a few dozen share a hash within msgpack's integer range. Both refusals
come before set() builds anything. The writer refuses a set over the count, so
it never emits one its reader refuses.
Measured per byte at about 1 MB against an honest set of the same size: the
costliest admitted forged set (1024 ints whose probe sequences merge) decodes
in about 4x the time; same-hash UUID or long-prefix tuple pairs about 1x.
Same-hash UUID sets of 1024, previously about 30x, and larger ones, previously
quadratic, are refused. The guard adds about 1.3-1.5x to decoding a set.
Also widen _keys_tested_by to any word-character dunder literal, so a marker
key such as "__new_type__" added to a hook fails the Rust marker-list check.
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- src/cachekit/serializers/auto_serializer.py:386
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### [1/1] src/cachekit/serializers/auto_serializer.py:386
Issue identified during code review:
Contract break in _check_untrusted_set(): the reader raises SerializationError when three hashed elements share a hash, but _auto_default() never runs that check, so the writer stores honest sets that can never be read back. CPython gives hash(-1) == hash(-2) and tuple hashes depend only on element hashes, so a cached set like {(dx, dy) for dx in range(-2, 3) for dy in range(-2, 3)} contains (-1,-1), (-1,-2), (-2,-1), and (-2,-2) with identical hashes. Every read of that set raises SerializationError and is treated as a cache miss, so the function recomputes and rewrites the entry on every call, contradicting the docs' claim that three shared hashes occur 'only by construction'. Fix: run the same hash check in _auto_default and raise TypeError so the writer refuses such sets, or loosen the reader to check hashes[k:] for some k well above the number of honest collisions.
Reference implementation (from code review):
// src/cachekit/serializers/auto_serializer.py:386
# In _auto_default, after the count check, mirror the reader so it never refuses a set the writer emitted:
hashes = sorted(hash(x) for x in value if type(x) not in (str, bytes, int, float))
if any(map(operator.eq, hashes, hashes[2:])):
raise TypeError(
f"AutoSerializer cannot store this {type(obj).__name__}: three of its elements share one hash "
"(e.g. tuples over -1/-2). Cache the elements as a list instead."
)
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Review each issue in context, use the reference implementations as guidance, and apply fixes that are consistent with the surrounding codebase.
Automatic serialisation now refuses sets and frozensets that exceed the supported size or hash-collision limits, including certain combinations of nested frozensets and tuples.
Deserialisation rejects stored collections that violate these limits and treats them as cache misses, triggering recomputation. This also applies when decoded elements become equal or exceed the limits after decoding.
Collections within the supported limits continue to round-trip with their original type.
Documentation
Updated the automatic serialisation and error-code documentation with the limits and resulting errors.
Walkthrough
The auto serializer now checks set and frozenset element-count and hash-sharing bounds during encoding and decoding. Documentation and tests cover these checks. An interop test helper now matches uppercase characters in dunder names.
Changes
Set serialisation limits
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Summary
Define and enforce encoding bounds src/cachekit/serializers/auto_serializer.py, tests/unit/test_auto_serializer_new_types.py
The serializer checks set and frozenset values before encoding and raises TypeError when a bound is exceeded. Tests cover writer limits and accepted boundaries.
Validate decoded set values src/cachekit/serializers/auto_serializer.py, tests/unit/test_auto_serializer_new_types.py, docs/serializers/auto.md, docs/error-codes.md
Decoding checks set and frozenset payloads before construction. Tests cover rejection cases, boundaries, and round-trips. The documentation describes the bounds and related errors.
Interop test name matching
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Summary
Match uppercase dunder names tests/unit/test_auto_interop_decode.py
The test helper now recognises word characters in dunder marker names, including uppercase letters.
cachekit-io/cachekit-py#696: PR #696 decodes retained AutoSerializer MessagePack payloads through an L1 path. This PR changes set checks applied during decoding.
cachekit-io/cachekit-py#719: PR #719 routes AutoSerializer MessagePack decoding through Rust and passes set markers to _auto_object_hook. This PR adds bounds to set revival and updates decoder parity tests.
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This change bounds set and frozenset handling in the auto serializer to limit hash-flood work. Over-bound sets are refused on write and read as cache misses. No blocking risk was found.
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Fix the doubled comma and the agreement error in the paragraph.
Static analysis flags the "Two consecutive commas" hint at Line 72. The sentence is "an int, a float, a bool, None, a UUID...". The commas are separated by code spans, so this is a false positive. The "few share a hash" hint is also a false positive, because "few" is the correct quantifier there.
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Path
Head Ir/op
Base Ir/op
Delta
WARN
l1_hit_interop
109,639
109,168
+0.43%
WARN
miss
221,027
220,321
+0.32%
ok
byte_storage_store_40b
2,468
2,467
+0.04%
ok
byte_storage_store_64k
724,200
724,168
+0.00%
ok
file_set
77,090
77,124
-0.04%
ok
l1_hit
2,991
2,991
+0.00%
ok
l1_hit_backed
83,739
83,882
-0.17%
ok
l1_hit_backed_auto
83,660
83,764
-0.12%
ok
l2_hit
168,604
168,412
+0.11%
ok
l2_hit_async_metrics
168,647
168,685
-0.02%
ok
local_hit
3,142
3,142
+0.00%
ok
minimal_l1_hit
2,991
2,991
+0.00%
ok
object_cache_put_full
172,724
172,689
+0.02%
ok
secure_l1_hit
128,053
128,168
-0.09%
ok
serializer_arrow
1,928,423
1,928,640
-0.01%
ok
serializer_auto
53,389
53,417
-0.05%
ok
serializer_default
48,497
48,515
-0.04%
ok
serializer_default_records
1,026,310
1,025,888
+0.04%
ok
serializer_encrypted
90,538
90,554
-0.02%
ok
serializer_orjson
22,024
22,030
-0.03%
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… apply it on write
Review found two flaws in the same-hash check. Exempting ints and floats let a
forged set carry about 200 distinct floats on one hash (doubling a float
rotates its hash bits mod 2**61 - 1), and a UUID pair could share that hash.
And refusing three elements on one hash refused honest sets: hash(-1) ==
hash(-2), so 2-D offset tuples over -1 and -2 put four tuples on one hash.
The writer stored such a set and every read then missed.
Now every element's hash is sorted, a set may hold at most 8 on one hash (3-D
offset tuples fit), and the writer applies the same bounds, so a refused set
raises TypeError at write rather than missing on every read. A set of ints
alone skips the sort: at most 13 ints in msgpack's range share a hash, and
they compare in C.
Per byte at about 1 MB against an honest same-size set, the costliest admitted
forged set is still 1024 ints on one merged probe chain, about 4x; groups of 8
same-hash UUIDs or long-prefix tuples about 1.1x; groups of 12 same-hash ints
about 1.7x.
… exposed hashes
Review found that capping each hash at 8 elements bounds the number of
__eq__ calls but not their cost. Two frozensets compare by looking up each
element of one in the other, and each lookup can compare same-hash frozensets
one level down, so forged nested frozensets on one hash cost more with every
level of nesting, and grew super-linearly with size. Wrapping each frozenset
in a tuple did the same.
Now no two frozensets in a set may share a hash, nor may two tuples once any
tuple in the set holds a tuple or frozenset. Both checks run in C passes over
the elements' types. Flat tuples keep the limit of 8, so offset tuples over -1
and -2 still round-trip.
Also from review: the same-hash sort now skips str and bytes, whose hashes
are secret (a large string set beside nine ints decoded up to 3x slower), the
writer takes the reader's all-int shortcut, and the tests cover a real bool
and drop a duplicate case.
The costliest admitted forged set is still 1024 ints on one merged probe
chain, about 4-5x an honest same-size set per byte.
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…ds a frozenset
Review found that refusing same-hash tuples whenever a tuple in the set held
any tuple refused common honest data: grid edges stored both ways, such as
((0, -1), (0, -2)) and ((0, -2), (0, -1)), share a hash because
hash(-1) == hash(-2). Tuples that hold only tuples and scalars compare in time
linear in their size, so they keep the limit of 8 per hash. Only a frozenset,
at any depth inside a tuple, makes a comparison recurse into set lookups; the
check now walks the tuples a level at a time in C passes to find one.
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(an earlier cachekit version may have written it), the docs name the int
exemption and the lossy nanosecond round trip, and the tests split and rename
to say what they check.
The refusal message, docstring and docs named only tuples holding
frozensets, but once any tuple in a set holds one, every pair of same-hash
tuples is refused. The docs also claimed every set whose elements read back
equal is refused, though up to 8 still collapse without an error. Count
exposed elements through one helper.
A set the writer accepted can still be refused on read when its elements only
become equal once read back: pandas Timestamps that differ only in nanoseconds
read back as one datetime. The read error now names that cause beside a
forged entry and an older writer, so an operator does not chase a forgery.
The code comment, test docstring and docs say the same, and the docs name the
frozenset case.
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Review found two shapes that passed the set bound. "" and b"" hash to 0 in
every process, and a stored list may repeat them at 1 byte a copy, counted
toward neither bound, so each copy walked whatever forged ints sat on hash 0's
probe path. A stored set may now hold each at most once, as an honest one
does. And the all-int shortcut assumed at most 13 ints share a hash, which
holds for a live set but not for a stored list that repeats an int: copies
pinned the table below its resize and each walked a long probe chain. The
shortcut is gone, so every element's hash is checked; a run of more than 8
equal hashes, copies included, is refused.
The checks now run only when their types are present, and the sort-and-compare
lives in one helper. Sorting the hashes is the guard's main cost on honest
sets of ints and floats. The docs drop the shortcut and the worst-case figure,
name the empty values, and note that an aware datetime at fold=1 can come back
equal to another element.
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The writer ran its Python isinstance recount on every set of more than 1024
elements, all-string sets included. It now counts the types in C first and
recounts only when that count is over the bound. A set of only str or only
bytes takes its own branch: nothing is exposed, and list.count finds a
repeated empty value. The per-hash bound counts only elements that are neither
str nor bytes, and its refusal says so.
Docs: a refused stored set reaches the @cache log only as SerializationError
(the log carries the class, not the text); the cost note covers reads and
writes and string sets; fold=1 is named beside the Timestamp cause.
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Description
AutoSerializernow bounds the sets and frozensets it revives. A stored set may hold at most 1,024 elements that are neitherstrnorbytes, at most 8 elements on one hash value,""andb""at most once each, and no two frozensets on one hash (nor two tuples, once a frozenset sits anywhere inside one of its tuples). The reader checks them beforeset()/frozenset()builds anything and raisesSerializationErrorotherwise. The writer applies the same bounds and raisesTypeError, so a set over them fails loudly at write instead of missing on every read.Also:
_keys_tested_byintests/unit/test_auto_interop_decode.pynow matches any word-character dunder literal (__\w+__), so a hook that gains a key such as"__new_type__"or"__type2__"failstest_each_readers_rust_marker_keys_are_its_hooks. The old__[a-z]+__let both through.Motivation
The
__set__branch of_auto_object_hookbuilt the set from an untrusted list with no bound. Ints, floats, UUIDs and tuples hash without a per-process secret, so whoever can write a cache entry could choose element hashes that make one read quadratic in the set's size. A stored set is a list, so it can also repeat an element, and""andb""hash to 0 in every process. Three shapes follow:__eq__on every earlier element. A UUID's__eq__runs in Python; a tuple's can compare a long shared prefix.__eq__at all.The fix has four parts:
strnorbytes, copies included, counted withlist.countover their types, in C. Above 1,024 the set is refused before any element is hashed.""andb""are the onlystrandbyteswith a predictable hash (0), so a stored set may hold each at most once, as an honest one does.__eq__calls): the hashes of the elements that are neitherstrnorbytesare sorted, not tallied in a dict or set, since a table keyed by the hashes would itself be floodable. More than 8 on one hash, copies included, refuses the set. 8 admits honest collisions:hash(-1) == hash(-2), so 3-D offset tuples over -1 and -2 put 8 tuples on one hash. No type is exempt: about 200 distinct floats can share one hash, and repeated ints defeat any per-type shortcut.__eq__): two frozensets compare by looking up each element of one in the other, and each lookup can compare same-hash frozensets one level down, so nested same-hash frozensets cost more with every level. No two frozensets in a set may share a hash, nor may two tuples once a frozenset sits anywhere inside a tuple of the set (found by walking the tuples a level at a time in C passes). Tuples holding only tuples and scalars compare in linear time and keep the limit of 8, so grid edges such as((0, -1), (0, -2))still round-trip.Each figure is decode time per byte for a document of about 1 MB, divided by the same for an honest set of the same size and element type. Before is the code before this PR, with no guard on either side; for the two rows marked, it is an earlier head of this PR. After is this head, with the guard on both sides.
""What the guard costs an honest set. Each figure is the extra time with the guard on, over the same call with it off, for one cached set with integrity on:
serialize()deserialize()set(range(1024))Sorting the hashes of elements that are not strings dominates. It is the price of checking repeated ints, and it touches nothing but set markers.
Maps with keys other than str or bytes are not reachable on this path: the Auto reader decodes with
strict_map_key=True.Type of Change
Security Checklist
Security-critical path (
/src/cachekit/serializers/):unsafeblocks (no Rust changed)Documentation Validation Checklist
docs/serializers/auto.md: new Set Size Bound section (the bounds, what they count, why, what each side raises, what a check costs)docs/error-codes.md: Serialization unsupported type names the writer's refusal and links the sectionTesting
TestAutoSerializerSetHashFloodBoundintests/unit/test_auto_serializer_new_types.py__eq__calls and one__hash__per element (counting__hash__/__eq__)strandbytes(2,000 of each plus 1,024 ints decode, plus 1,025 ints refuse)""orb""twice is refused on read; one of each round-trips__eq__calls; the writer refuses{frozenset({-1}), frozenset({-2})}, tuples holding frozensets on one hash at any depth, and same-hash tuples beside one that holds a frozenset; same-hash grid-edge tuples round-tripsetandfrozenset: ints, int64 floor, floats, UUIDs, tuples, frozensets, datetimes, mixed scalars, 1,024 ints with 10,000 strings and bytes, astrsubclass, nested tuples holding frozensetsTypeError, forsetandfrozenset, and does not countstrsubclassesobj.get("__new_type__")andobj.get("__type2__")added to the hook now failtest_each_readers_rust_marker_keys_are_its_hooks; with the old regex both passed.slowand fuzzing: 8,607 passed, 109 skippedBackward Compatibility
Known residual, unchanged in kind: a value whose round trip is already lossy can now be refused on read. Nine or more pandas
Timestamps in one set that differ only below the microsecond read back as onedatetime, so the reader sees nine equal elements on one hash; two frozensets of suchTimestamps read back as two equal frozensets. Both are refused on read (pinned bytest_timestamps_that_read_back_equal_are_refused_on_read_past_the_bounds), and the error names this cause. Before, the set read back silently with fewer elements; now it reads as a miss and is recomputed. Fixing it means the writer keeping or refusing nanoseconds, a separate change. The same holds for an awaredatetimeatfold=1, which reads back with its offset but withoutfold.One behaviour change, documented in
auto.md: a set or frozenset with more than 1,024 elements that are neither strings nor bytes, more than 8 on one hash value, or two frozensets on one hash, can no longer be cached withserializer='auto'. Writing one raisesTypeError(under@cache, the result is returned uncached and the failure logged, as for any unsupported value). An entry written by an earlier version holding such a set reads as a miss and is recomputed. Sets of strings or bytes of any size are unaffected. To cache more elements, cache them as a list.Closes LAB-12954