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authorTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>2017-12-22 12:08:34 -0500
committerTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>2017-12-22 12:08:34 -0500
commita84e90bb249d3ece4041f46651b4de566b7f6684 (patch)
treeaf9918c0b5eeee19432b46c990a0211a444a106b
parent195516c9a6d72603969597bb0e495dd269e1ce22 (diff)
Disallow UNION/INTERSECT/EXCEPT over no columns.
Since 9.4, we've allowed the syntax "select union select" and variants of that. However, the planner wasn't expecting a no-column set operation and ended up treating the set operation as if it were UNION ALL. Pre-v10, there seem to be some executor issues that would need to be fixed to support such cases, and it doesn't really seem worth expending much effort on. Just disallow it, instead. Per report from Victor Yegorov. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAGnEbojGJrRSOgJwNGM7JSJZpVAf8xXcVPbVrGdhbVEHZ-BUMw@mail.gmail.com
-rw-r--r--src/backend/optimizer/prep/prepunion.c21
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/src/backend/optimizer/prep/prepunion.c b/src/backend/optimizer/prep/prepunion.c
index 2e55131a591..e80ad7753de 100644
--- a/src/backend/optimizer/prep/prepunion.c
+++ b/src/backend/optimizer/prep/prepunion.c
@@ -594,12 +594,13 @@ generate_nonunion_plan(SetOperationStmt *op, PlannerInfo *root,
/* Identify the grouping semantics */
groupList = generate_setop_grouplist(op, tlist);
- /* punt if nothing to group on (can this happen?) */
+ /* punt if nothing to group on (not worth fixing in back branches) */
if (groupList == NIL)
- {
- *sortClauses = NIL;
- return plan;
- }
+ ereport(ERROR,
+ (errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+ /* translator: %s is UNION, INTERSECT, or EXCEPT */
+ errmsg("%s over no columns is not supported",
+ (op->op == SETOP_INTERSECT) ? "INTERSECT" : "EXCEPT")));
/*
* Estimate number of distinct groups that we'll need hashtable entries
@@ -738,12 +739,12 @@ make_union_unique(SetOperationStmt *op, Plan *plan,
/* Identify the grouping semantics */
groupList = generate_setop_grouplist(op, plan->targetlist);
- /* punt if nothing to group on (can this happen?) */
+ /* punt if nothing to group on (not worth fixing in back branches) */
if (groupList == NIL)
- {
- *sortClauses = NIL;
- return plan;
- }
+ ereport(ERROR,
+ (errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+ /* translator: %s is UNION, INTERSECT, or EXCEPT */
+ errmsg("%s over no columns is not supported", "UNION")));
/*
* XXX for the moment, take the number of distinct groups as equal to the