Fix an oversight in checking whether a join with LATERAL refs is legal.
In many cases, we can implement a semijoin as a plain innerjoin by first
passing the righthand-side relation through a unique-ification step.
However, one of the cases where this does NOT work is where the RHS has
a LATERAL reference to the LHS; that makes the RHS dependent on the LHS
so that unique-ification is meaningless. joinpath.c understood this,
and so would not generate any join paths of this kind ... but join_is_legal
neglected to check for the case, so it would think that we could do it.
The upshot would be a "could not devise a query plan for the given query"
failure once we had failed to generate any join paths at all for the bogus
join pair.
Back-patch to 9.3 where LATERAL was added.
Branch
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REL9_4_STABLE
Details
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http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/216977a7d99507ca3227a505510bf5ced4f14799
Modified Files
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src/backend/optimizer/path/joinrels.c | 8 ++++++--
src/test/regress/expected/join.out | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
src/test/regress/sql/join.sql | 13 ++++++++++++
3 files changed, 54 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
