pgsql: Avoid rewriting data-modifying CTEs more than once. - Mailing list pgsql-committers

From Dean Rasheed
Subject pgsql: Avoid rewriting data-modifying CTEs more than once.
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Msg-id E1vPKBi-001yFr-2P@gemulon.postgresql.org
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Avoid rewriting data-modifying CTEs more than once.

Formerly, when updating an auto-updatable view, or a relation with
rules, if the original query had any data-modifying CTEs, the rewriter
would rewrite those CTEs multiple times as RewriteQuery() recursed
into the product queries. In most cases that was harmless, because
RewriteQuery() is mostly idempotent. However, if the CTE involved
updating an always-generated column, it would trigger an error because
any subsequent rewrite would appear to be attempting to assign a
non-default value to the always-generated column.

This could perhaps be fixed by attempting to make RewriteQuery() fully
idempotent, but that looks quite tricky to achieve, and would probably
be quite fragile, given that more generated-column-type features might
be added in the future.

Instead, fix by arranging for RewriteQuery() to rewrite each CTE
exactly once (by tracking the number of CTEs already rewritten as it
recurses). This has the advantage of being simpler and more efficient,
but it does make RewriteQuery() dependent on the order in which
rewriteRuleAction() joins the CTE lists from the original query and
the rule action, so care must be taken if that is ever changed.

Reported-by: Bernice Southey <bernice.southey@gmail.com>
Author: Bernice Southey <bernice.southey@gmail.com>
Author: Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Reviewed-by: Kirill Reshke <reshkekirill@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEDh4nyD6MSH9bROhsOsuTqGAv_QceU_GDvN9WcHLtZTCYM1kA@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 14

Branch
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REL_17_STABLE

Details
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/c090965036631775942f5e4ff3c836fc6003c819

Modified Files
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src/backend/rewrite/rewriteHandler.c | 31 ++++++++++++++++++++++-----
src/test/regress/expected/with.out   | 41 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
src/test/regress/sql/with.sql        | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++
3 files changed, 90 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)


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