Don't assume a subquery's output is unique if there's a SRF in its tlist.

While the x output of "select x from t group by x" can be presumed unique,
this does not hold for "select x, generate_series(1,10) from t group by x",
because we may expand the set-returning function after the grouping step.
(Perhaps that should be re-thought; but considering all the other oddities
involved with SRFs in targetlists, it seems unlikely we'll change it.)
Put a check in query_is_distinct_for() so it's not fooled by such cases.

Back-patch to all supported branches.

David Rowley

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/backend/optimizer/util/pathnode.c b/src/backend/optimizer/util/pathnode.c
index df4e9247d79..53f085a1fbc 100644
--- a/src/backend/optimizer/util/pathnode.c
+++ b/src/backend/optimizer/util/pathnode.c
@@ -1205,6 +1205,17 @@ query_is_distinct_for(Query *query, List *colnos, List *opids)
 	Assert(list_length(colnos) == list_length(opids));
 
 	/*
+	 * A set-returning function in the query's targetlist can result in
+	 * returning duplicate rows, if the SRF is evaluated after the
+	 * de-duplication step; so we play it safe and say "no" if there are any
+	 * SRFs.  (We could be certain that it's okay if SRFs appear only in the
+	 * specified columns, since those must be evaluated before de-duplication;
+	 * but it doesn't presently seem worth the complication to check that.)
+	 */
+	if (expression_returns_set((Node *) query->targetList))
+		return false;
+
+	/*
 	 * DISTINCT (including DISTINCT ON) guarantees uniqueness if all the
 	 * columns in the DISTINCT clause appear in colnos and operator semantics
 	 * match.