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From Andres Freund
Subject pgsql: Fix bug around assignment expressions containing indirections.
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Msg-id E1ZIZjy-0005Ec-W1@gemulon.postgresql.org
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Fix bug around assignment expressions containing indirections.

Handling of assigned-to expressions with indirection (e.g. set f1[1] =
3) was broken for ON CONFLICT DO UPDATE.  The problem was that
ParseState was consulted to determine if an INSERT-appropriate or
UPDATE-appropriate behavior should be used when transforming expressions
with indirections. When the wrong path was taken the old row was
substituted with NULL, leading to wrong results..

To fix remove p_is_update and only use p_is_insert to decide how to
transform the assignment expression, and uset p_is_insert while parsing
the on conflict statement. This isn't particularly pretty, but it's not
any worse than before.

Author: Peter Geoghegan, slightly edited by me
Discussion: CAM3SWZS8RPvA=KFxADZWw3wAHnnbxMxDzkEC6fNaFc7zSm411w@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch: 9.5, where the feature was introduced

Branch
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REL9_5_STABLE

Details
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http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/bb0203f26fa5f09fe2689a9db4bc632c1435edec

Modified Files
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src/backend/parser/analyze.c         |    8 +++++++-
src/include/parser/parse_node.h      |    1 -
src/test/regress/expected/arrays.out |   21 +++++++++++++++++++++
src/test/regress/sql/arrays.sql      |   13 +++++++++++++
4 files changed, 41 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)


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