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From David Rowley
Subject pgsql: Fix Assert failure in WITH RECURSIVE UNION queries
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Msg-id E1tO49a-000Gkk-1q@gemulon.postgresql.org
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Fix Assert failure in WITH RECURSIVE UNION queries

If the non-recursive part of a recursive CTE ended up using
TTSOpsBufferHeapTuple as the table slot type, then a duplicate value
could cause an Assert failure in CheckOpSlotCompatibility() when
checking the hash table for the duplicate value.  The expected slot type
for the deform step was TTSOpsMinimalTuple so the Assert failed when the
TTSOpsBufferHeapTuple slot was used.

This is a long-standing bug which we likely didn't notice because it
seems much more likely that the non-recursive term would have required
projection and used a TTSOpsVirtual slot, which CheckOpSlotCompatibility
is ok with.

There doesn't seem to be any harm done here other than the Assert
failure.  Both TTSOpsMinimalTuple and TTSOpsBufferHeapTuple slot types
require tuple deformation, so the EEOP_*_FETCHSOME ExprState step would
have properly existed in the ExprState.

The solution is to pass NULL for the ExecBuildGroupingEqual's 'lops'
parameter.  This means the ExprState's EEOP_*_FETCHSOME step won't
expect a fixed slot type.  This makes CheckOpSlotCompatibility() happy as
no checking is performed when the ExprEvalStep is not expecting a fixed
slot type.

Reported-by: Richard Guo
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMbWs4-8U9q2LAtf8+ghV11zeUReA3AmrYkxzBEv0vKnDxwkKA@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 13, all supported versions

Branch
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REL_17_STABLE

Details
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/7b8d45d278de62b23777b36e1515c34d2eaeaf66

Modified Files
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src/backend/executor/execGrouping.c |  3 +--
src/test/regress/expected/with.out  | 15 +++++++++++++++
src/test/regress/sql/with.sql       | 12 ++++++++++++
3 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)


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