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-rw-r--r--src/backend/optimizer/plan/planner.c28
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/src/backend/optimizer/plan/planner.c b/src/backend/optimizer/plan/planner.c
index 6d6978dcf5b..27d7b3dea26 100644
--- a/src/backend/optimizer/plan/planner.c
+++ b/src/backend/optimizer/plan/planner.c
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
*
*
* IDENTIFICATION
- * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/optimizer/plan/planner.c,v 1.228 2008/03/27 19:06:14 tgl Exp $
+ * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/optimizer/plan/planner.c,v 1.229 2008/03/28 02:00:11 tgl Exp $
*
*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
*/
@@ -835,6 +835,21 @@ grouping_planner(PlannerInfo *root, double tuple_fraction)
MemSet(&agg_counts, 0, sizeof(AggClauseCounts));
+ /*
+ * If the query involves ungrouped aggregation, then it can produce
+ * at most one row, so we can ignore any ORDER BY or DISTINCT
+ * request. This isn't all that exciting as an optimization, but it
+ * prevents a corner case when optimize_minmax_aggregates succeeds:
+ * if ORDER BY or DISTINCT were present we'd try, and fail, to match
+ * the EquivalenceClasses we're about to build with the modified
+ * targetlist entries it will create.
+ */
+ if (parse->hasAggs && parse->groupClause == NIL)
+ {
+ parse->sortClause = NIL;
+ parse->distinctClause = NIL;
+ }
+
/* Preprocess targetlist */
tlist = preprocess_targetlist(root, tlist);
@@ -950,17 +965,6 @@ grouping_planner(PlannerInfo *root, double tuple_fraction)
* right tlist, and it has no sort order.
*/
current_pathkeys = NIL;
- /*
- * In fact, since we don't optimize grouped aggregates, it
- * needs no sort order --- there must be exactly one output row,
- * and so any ORDER BY or DISTINCT attached to the query is
- * useless and can be dropped. Aside from saving useless cycles,
- * this protects us against problems with matching the hacked-up
- * tlist entries to sort clauses.
- */
- Assert(!parse->groupClause);
- parse->sortClause = NULL;
- parse->distinctClause = NULL;
}
else
{