Avoid an Assert failure in deconstruct_array() by making get_attstatsslot()

use the actual element type of the array it's disassembling, rather than
trusting the type OID passed in by its caller.  This is needed because
sometimes the planner passes in a type OID that's only binary-compatible
with the target column's type, rather than being an exact match.  Per an
example from Bernd Helmle.

Possibly we should refactor get_attstatsslot/free_attstatsslot to not expect
the caller to supply type ID data at all, but for now I'll just do the
minimum-change fix.

Back-patch to 7.4.  Bernd's test case only crashes back to 8.0, but since
these subroutines are the same in 7.4, I suspect there may be variant
cases that would crash 7.4 as well.

1 files changed, 17 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/src/backend/utils/cache/lsyscache.c b/src/backend/utils/cache/lsyscache.c
index 8247516bd14..e71ac3fb625 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/cache/lsyscache.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/cache/lsyscache.c
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
  * Portions Copyright (c) 1994, Regents of the University of California
  *
  * IDENTIFICATION
- *	  $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/utils/cache/lsyscache.c,v 1.162 2009/06/11 14:49:05 momjian Exp $
+ *	  $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/utils/cache/lsyscache.c,v 1.162.2.1 2010/07/09 22:57:54 tgl Exp $
  *
  * NOTES
  *	  Eventually, the index information should go through here, too.
@@ -2554,6 +2554,10 @@ get_attavgwidth(Oid relid, AttrNumber attnum)
  * If the attribute type is pass-by-reference, the values referenced by
  * the values array are themselves palloc'd.  The palloc'd stuff can be
  * freed by calling free_attstatsslot.
+ *
+ * Note: at present, atttype/atttypmod aren't actually used here at all.
+ * But the caller must have the correct (or at least binary-compatible)
+ * type ID to pass to free_attstatsslot later.
  */
 bool
 get_attstatsslot(HeapTuple statstuple,
@@ -2568,6 +2572,7 @@ get_attstatsslot(HeapTuple statstuple,
 	Datum		val;
 	bool		isnull;
 	ArrayType  *statarray;
+	Oid			arrayelemtype;
 	int			narrayelem;
 	HeapTuple	typeTuple;
 	Form_pg_type typeForm;
@@ -2590,17 +2595,24 @@ get_attstatsslot(HeapTuple statstuple,
 			elog(ERROR, "stavalues is null");
 		statarray = DatumGetArrayTypeP(val);
 
-		/* Need to get info about the array element type */
+		/*
+		 * Need to get info about the array element type.  We look at the
+		 * actual element type embedded in the array, which might be only
+		 * binary-compatible with the passed-in atttype.  The info we
+		 * extract here should be the same either way, but deconstruct_array
+		 * is picky about having an exact type OID match.
+		 */
+		arrayelemtype = ARR_ELEMTYPE(statarray);
 		typeTuple = SearchSysCache(TYPEOID,
-								   ObjectIdGetDatum(atttype),
+								   ObjectIdGetDatum(arrayelemtype),
 								   0, 0, 0);
 		if (!HeapTupleIsValid(typeTuple))
-			elog(ERROR, "cache lookup failed for type %u", atttype);
+			elog(ERROR, "cache lookup failed for type %u", arrayelemtype);
 		typeForm = (Form_pg_type) GETSTRUCT(typeTuple);
 
 		/* Deconstruct array into Datum elements; NULLs not expected */
 		deconstruct_array(statarray,
-						  atttype,
+						  arrayelemtype,
 						  typeForm->typlen,
 						  typeForm->typbyval,
 						  typeForm->typalign,