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From Tom Lane
Subject pgsql: Fix improper repetition of previous results from a hashed aggreg
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Msg-id E1bcd4H-0001J2-7S@gemulon.postgresql.org
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Fix improper repetition of previous results from a hashed aggregate.

ExecReScanAgg's check for whether it could re-use a previously calculated
hashtable neglected the possibility that the Agg node might reference
PARAM_EXEC Params that are not referenced by its input plan node.  That's
okay if the Params are in upper tlist or qual expressions; but if one
appears in aggregate input expressions, then the hashtable contents need
to be recomputed when the Param's value changes.

To avoid unnecessary performance degradation in the case of a Param that
isn't within an aggregate input, add logic to the planner to determine
which Params are within aggregate inputs.  This requires a new field in
struct Agg, but fortunately we never write plans to disk, so this isn't
an initdb-forcing change.

Per report from Jeevan Chalke.  This has been broken since forever,
so back-patch to all supported branches.

Andrew Gierth, with minor adjustments by me

Report: <CAM2+6=VY8ykfLT5Q8vb9B6EbeBk-NGuLbT6seaQ+Fq4zXvrDcA@mail.gmail.com>

Branch
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REL9_3_STABLE

Details
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http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/aaad96e4026e7bb3033ac0127510f2c60116a1b3

Modified Files
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src/backend/executor/nodeAgg.c           | 15 ++++---
src/backend/nodes/copyfuncs.c            |  1 +
src/backend/nodes/outfuncs.c             |  1 +
src/backend/optimizer/plan/createplan.c  |  1 +
src/backend/optimizer/plan/subselect.c   | 47 +++++++++++++++++++-
src/include/nodes/plannodes.h            |  2 +
src/test/regress/expected/aggregates.out | 73 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
src/test/regress/sql/aggregates.sql      | 22 ++++++++++
8 files changed, 155 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)


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