pgsql: Fix bug with whole-row references to append subplans. - Mailing list pgsql-committers

From Tom Lane
Subject pgsql: Fix bug with whole-row references to append subplans.
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Msg-id E1X5k0Q-0000Om-1I@gemulon.postgresql.org
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Fix bug with whole-row references to append subplans.

ExecEvalWholeRowVar incorrectly supposed that it could "bless" the source
TupleTableSlot just once per query.  But if the input is coming from an
Append (or, perhaps, other cases?) more than one slot might be returned
over the query run.  This led to "record type has not been registered"
errors when a composite datum was extracted from a non-blessed slot.

This bug has been there a long time; I guess it escaped notice because when
dealing with subqueries the planner tends to expand whole-row Vars into
RowExprs, which don't have the same problem.  It is possible to trigger
the problem in all active branches, though, as illustrated by the added
regression test.

Branch
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REL9_0_STABLE

Details
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http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/cd8ba91a055e7ac8471addf28fa4412db8d2e529

Modified Files
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src/backend/executor/execQual.c         |   33 ++++++++++++++++++-------------
src/test/regress/expected/subselect.out |   18 +++++++++++++++++
src/test/regress/sql/subselect.sql      |   10 ++++++++++
3 files changed, 47 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)


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