Fix handling of empty arrays in array_fill().

array_fill(..., array[0]) produced an empty array, which is probably
what users expect, but it was a one-dimensional zero-length array
which is not our standard representation of empty arrays.  Also, for
no very good reason, it rejected empty input arrays; that case should
be allowed and produce an empty output array.

In passing, remove the restriction that the input array(s) have lower
bound 1.  That seems rather pointless, and it would have needed extra
complexity to make the check deal with empty input arrays.

Per bug #14487 from Andrew Gierth.  It's been broken all along, so
back-patch to all supported branches.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170105152156.10135.64195@wrigleys.postgresql.org

3 files changed, 42 insertions, 19 deletions

diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/arrayfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/arrayfuncs.c
index 1cb29ed4416..9154ffd7bed 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/arrayfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/arrayfuncs.c
@@ -4915,25 +4915,19 @@ array_fill_internal(ArrayType *dims, ArrayType *lbs,
 	/*
 	 * Params checks
 	 */
-	if (ARR_NDIM(dims) != 1)
+	if (ARR_NDIM(dims) > 1)
 		ereport(ERROR,
 				(errcode(ERRCODE_ARRAY_SUBSCRIPT_ERROR),
 				 errmsg("wrong number of array subscripts"),
 				 errdetail("Dimension array must be one dimensional.")));
 
-	if (ARR_LBOUND(dims)[0] != 1)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_ARRAY_SUBSCRIPT_ERROR),
-				 errmsg("wrong range of array subscripts"),
-				 errdetail("Lower bound of dimension array must be one.")));
-
 	if (array_contains_nulls(dims))
 		ereport(ERROR,
 				(errcode(ERRCODE_NULL_VALUE_NOT_ALLOWED),
 				 errmsg("dimension values cannot be null")));
 
 	dimv = (int *) ARR_DATA_PTR(dims);
-	ndims = ARR_DIMS(dims)[0];
+	ndims = (ARR_NDIM(dims) > 0) ? ARR_DIMS(dims)[0] : 0;
 
 	if (ndims < 0)				/* we do allow zero-dimension arrays */
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -4947,24 +4941,18 @@ array_fill_internal(ArrayType *dims, ArrayType *lbs,
 
 	if (lbs != NULL)
 	{
-		if (ARR_NDIM(lbs) != 1)
+		if (ARR_NDIM(lbs) > 1)
 			ereport(ERROR,
 					(errcode(ERRCODE_ARRAY_SUBSCRIPT_ERROR),
 					 errmsg("wrong number of array subscripts"),
 					 errdetail("Dimension array must be one dimensional.")));
 
-		if (ARR_LBOUND(lbs)[0] != 1)
-			ereport(ERROR,
-					(errcode(ERRCODE_ARRAY_SUBSCRIPT_ERROR),
-					 errmsg("wrong range of array subscripts"),
-				  errdetail("Lower bound of dimension array must be one.")));
-
 		if (array_contains_nulls(lbs))
 			ereport(ERROR,
 					(errcode(ERRCODE_NULL_VALUE_NOT_ALLOWED),
 					 errmsg("dimension values cannot be null")));
 
-		if (ARR_DIMS(lbs)[0] != ndims)
+		if (ndims != ((ARR_NDIM(lbs) > 0) ? ARR_DIMS(lbs)[0] : 0))
 			ereport(ERROR,
 					(errcode(ERRCODE_ARRAY_SUBSCRIPT_ERROR),
 					 errmsg("wrong number of array subscripts"),
@@ -4982,12 +4970,12 @@ array_fill_internal(ArrayType *dims, ArrayType *lbs,
 		lbsv = deflbs;
 	}
 
+	nitems = ArrayGetNItems(ndims, dimv);
+
 	/* fast track for empty array */
-	if (ndims == 0)
+	if (nitems <= 0)
 		return construct_empty_array(elmtype);
 
-	nitems = ArrayGetNItems(ndims, dimv);
-
 	/*
 	 * We arrange to look up info about element type only once per series of
 	 * calls, assuming the element type doesn't change underneath us.
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/arrays.out b/src/test/regress/expected/arrays.out
index 7e487fc9ec9..859e0b09f7b 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/arrays.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/arrays.out
@@ -1289,16 +1289,43 @@ select array_fill('juhu'::text, array[3,3]);
  {{juhu,juhu,juhu},{juhu,juhu,juhu},{juhu,juhu,juhu}}
 (1 row)
 
+select a, a = '{}' as is_eq, array_dims(a)
+  from (select array_fill(42, array[0]) as a) ss;
+ a  | is_eq | array_dims 
+----+-------+------------
+ {} | t     | 
+(1 row)
+
+select a, a = '{}' as is_eq, array_dims(a)
+  from (select array_fill(42, '{}') as a) ss;
+ a  | is_eq | array_dims 
+----+-------+------------
+ {} | t     | 
+(1 row)
+
+select a, a = '{}' as is_eq, array_dims(a)
+  from (select array_fill(42, '{}', '{}') as a) ss;
+ a  | is_eq | array_dims 
+----+-------+------------
+ {} | t     | 
+(1 row)
+
 -- raise exception
 select array_fill(1, null, array[2,2]);
 ERROR:  dimension array or low bound array cannot be null
 select array_fill(1, array[2,2], null);
 ERROR:  dimension array or low bound array cannot be null
+select array_fill(1, array[2,2], '{}');
+ERROR:  wrong number of array subscripts
+DETAIL:  Low bound array has different size than dimensions array.
 select array_fill(1, array[3,3], array[1,1,1]);
 ERROR:  wrong number of array subscripts
 DETAIL:  Low bound array has different size than dimensions array.
 select array_fill(1, array[1,2,null]);
 ERROR:  dimension values cannot be null
+select array_fill(1, array[[1,2],[3,4]]);
+ERROR:  wrong number of array subscripts
+DETAIL:  Dimension array must be one dimensional.
 select string_to_array('1|2|3', '|');
  string_to_array 
 -----------------
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/arrays.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/arrays.sql
index 8994a1f05ad..0da839b83bb 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/arrays.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/arrays.sql
@@ -383,11 +383,19 @@ select array_fill(7, array[3,3],array[2,2]);
 select array_fill(7, array[3,3]);
 select array_fill('juhu'::text, array[3,3],array[2,2]);
 select array_fill('juhu'::text, array[3,3]);
+select a, a = '{}' as is_eq, array_dims(a)
+  from (select array_fill(42, array[0]) as a) ss;
+select a, a = '{}' as is_eq, array_dims(a)
+  from (select array_fill(42, '{}') as a) ss;
+select a, a = '{}' as is_eq, array_dims(a)
+  from (select array_fill(42, '{}', '{}') as a) ss;
 -- raise exception
 select array_fill(1, null, array[2,2]);
 select array_fill(1, array[2,2], null);
+select array_fill(1, array[2,2], '{}');
 select array_fill(1, array[3,3], array[1,1,1]);
 select array_fill(1, array[1,2,null]);
+select array_fill(1, array[[1,2],[3,4]]);
 
 select string_to_array('1|2|3', '|');
 select string_to_array('1|2|3|', '|');