Fix possible crash during WindowAgg evaluation
When short-circuiting WindowAgg node evaluation on the top-level
WindowAgg node using quals on monotonic window functions, because the
WindowAgg run condition can mean there's no need to evaluate subsequent
window function results in the same partition once the run condition
becomes false, it was possible that the executor would use stale results
from the previous invocation of the window function in some cases.
A fix for this was partially done by a5832722, but that commit only
fixed the issue for non-top-level WindowAgg nodes. I mistakenly thought
that the top-level WindowAgg didn't have this issue, but Jayesh's example
case clearly shows that's incorrect. At the time, I also thought that
this only affected 32-bit systems as all window functions which then
supported run conditions returned BIGINT, however, that's wrong as
ExecProject is still called and that could cause evaluation of any other
window function belonging to the same WindowAgg node, one of which may
return a byref type.
The only queries affected by this are WindowAggs with a "Run Condition"
which contains at least one window function with a byref result type,
such as lead() or lag() on a byref column. The window clause must also
contain a PARTITION BY clause (without a PARTITION BY, execution of the
WindowAgg stops immediately when the run condition becomes false and
there's no risk of using the stale results).
Reported-by: Jayesh Dehankar
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/193261e2c4d.3dd3cd7c1842.871636075166132237@zohocorp.com
Backpatch-through: 15, where WindowAgg run conditions were added
Branch
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REL_17_STABLE
Details
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/9d5ce4f1a00aae95193b9737c4e8ced7f0aa4aaa
Modified Files
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src/backend/executor/nodeWindowAgg.c | 35 +++++++++++++++++------------------
src/test/regress/expected/window.out | 10 ++++++++++
src/test/regress/sql/window.sql | 7 +++++++
3 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
