David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com> writes:
> I think whatever the fix is here, we should likely ensure that the
> results are consistent regardless of which Aggrefs are the presorted
> ones. Perhaps the easiest way to do that, and to ensure we call the
> volatile functions are called the same number of times would just be
> to never choose Aggrefs with volatile functions when doing
> make_pathkeys_for_groupagg().
There's existing logic in equivclass.c and other places that tries
to draw very tight lines around what we'll assume about volatile
sort expressions (pathkeys). It sounds like there's someplace in
this recent patch that didn't get that memo.
regards, tom lane
