Ensure mark_dummy_rel doesn't create dangling pointers in RelOptInfos.
When we are doing GEQO join planning, the current memory context is a
short-lived context that will be reset at the end of geqo_eval(). However,
the RelOptInfos for base relations are set up before that and then re-used
across many GEQO cycles. Hence, any code that modifies a baserel during
join planning has to be careful not to put pointers to the short-lived
context into the baserel struct. mark_dummy_rel got this wrong, leading to
easy-to-reproduce-once-you-know-how crashes in 8.4, as reported off-list by
Leo Carson of SDSC. Some improvements made in 9.0 make it difficult to
demonstrate the crash in 9.0 or HEAD; but there's no doubt that there's
still a risk factor here, so patch all branches that have the function.
(Note: 8.3 has a similar function, but it's only applied to joinrels and
thus is not a hazard.)
Branch
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master
Details
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http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/eca75a12a27d28b972fc269c1c8813cd8eb15441
Modified Files
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src/backend/optimizer/path/joinrels.c | 26 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-
1 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
