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author | Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> | 2011-11-27 22:27:32 -0500 |
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committer | Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> | 2011-11-27 22:27:32 -0500 |
commit | 0702c86a13e6c644c32cf773af0a3a76e425ec50 (patch) | |
tree | 5ec9f1e30d78a0589f95706c835dd0682f78260c /src/backend/parser/parse_expr.c | |
parent | bcba9acf0d56d3fd5aa37c4ba6b24b6084032e58 (diff) | |
download | postgresql-0702c86a13e6c644c32cf773af0a3a76e425ec50.tar.gz postgresql-0702c86a13e6c644c32cf773af0a3a76e425ec50.zip |
Ensure that whole-row junk Vars are always of composite type.
The EvalPlanQual machinery assumes that whole-row Vars generated for the
outputs of non-table RTEs will be of composite types. However, for the
case where the RTE is a function call returning a scalar type, we were
doing the wrong thing, as a result of sharing code with a parser case
where the function's scalar output is wanted. (Or at least, that's what
that case has done historically; it does seem a bit inconsistent.)
To fix, extend makeWholeRowVar's API so that it can support both use-cases.
This fixes Belinda Cussen's report of crashes during concurrent execution
of UPDATEs involving joins to the result of UNNEST() --- in READ COMMITTED
mode, we'd run the EvalPlanQual machinery after a conflicting row update
commits, and it was expecting to get a HeapTuple not a scalar datum from
the "wholerowN" variable referencing the function RTE.
Back-patch to 9.0 where the current EvalPlanQual implementation appeared.
In 9.1 and up, this patch also fixes failure to attach the correct
collation to the Var generated for a scalar-result case. An example:
regression=# select upper(x.*) from textcat('ab', 'cd') x;
ERROR: could not determine which collation to use for upper() function
Diffstat (limited to 'src/backend/parser/parse_expr.c')
-rw-r--r-- | src/backend/parser/parse_expr.c | 11 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/backend/parser/parse_expr.c b/src/backend/parser/parse_expr.c index 79328c99797..75236c76a1f 100644 --- a/src/backend/parser/parse_expr.c +++ b/src/backend/parser/parse_expr.c @@ -2059,8 +2059,15 @@ transformWholeRowRef(ParseState *pstate, RangeTblEntry *rte, int location) /* Find the RTE's rangetable location */ vnum = RTERangeTablePosn(pstate, rte, &sublevels_up); - /* Build the appropriate referencing node */ - result = makeWholeRowVar(rte, vnum, sublevels_up); + /* + * Build the appropriate referencing node. Note that if the RTE is a + * function returning scalar, we create just a plain reference to the + * function value, not a composite containing a single column. This is + * pretty inconsistent at first sight, but it's what we've done + * historically. One argument for it is that "rel" and "rel.*" mean the + * same thing for composite relations, so why not for scalar functions... + */ + result = makeWholeRowVar(rte, vnum, sublevels_up, true); /* location is not filled in by makeWholeRowVar */ result->location = location; |