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authorTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>2007-01-24 01:26:02 +0000
committerTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>2007-01-24 01:26:02 +0000
commit3e0b5417a5487a838a88eef147f7ce5c58f8541a (patch)
tree6806fb620d73cad6a7a799addea09b69a593c495 /src/backend
parent8147c13f6fc04f9c929d03cbb5402f1977a07458 (diff)
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Relax an Assert() that has been found to be too strict in some situations
involving unions of types having typmods. Variants of the failure are known to occur in 8.1 and up; not sure if it's possible in 8.0 and 7.4, but since the code exists that far back, I'll just patch 'em all. Per report from Brian Hurt.
Diffstat (limited to 'src/backend')
-rw-r--r--src/backend/executor/execScan.c14
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/backend/executor/execScan.c b/src/backend/executor/execScan.c
index f4d8eba354d..538b0faf370 100644
--- a/src/backend/executor/execScan.c
+++ b/src/backend/executor/execScan.c
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
*
*
* IDENTIFICATION
- * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/executor/execScan.c,v 1.34 2004/12/31 21:59:45 pgsql Exp $
+ * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/executor/execScan.c,v 1.34.4.1 2007/01/24 01:26:02 tgl Exp $
*
*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
*/
@@ -214,8 +214,18 @@ tlist_matches_tupdesc(PlanState *ps, List *tlist, Index varno, TupleDesc tupdesc
return false; /* out of order */
if (att_tup->attisdropped)
return false; /* table contains dropped columns */
+ /*
+ * Note: usually the Var's type should match the tupdesc exactly,
+ * but in situations involving unions of columns that have different
+ * typmods, the Var may have come from above the union and hence have
+ * typmod -1. This is a legitimate situation since the Var still
+ * describes the column, just not as exactly as the tupdesc does.
+ * We could change the planner to prevent it, but it'd then insert
+ * projection steps just to convert from specific typmod to typmod -1,
+ * which is pretty silly.
+ */
Assert(var->vartype == att_tup->atttypid);
- Assert(var->vartypmod == att_tup->atttypmod);
+ Assert(var->vartypmod == att_tup->atttypmod || var->vartypmod == -1);
tlist_item = lnext(tlist_item);
}