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| author | Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> | 2011-11-27 22:27:39 -0500 |
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| committer | Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> | 2011-11-27 22:27:39 -0500 |
| commit | b09fc7c39dd69c2eda17c7a3f532cf38ea22a9e9 (patch) | |
| tree | e7d0a32e07334871a2ef962a34e39beaee5f6fd0 /src/backend/nodes/makefuncs.c | |
| parent | 87b0dcf490ffe2930940488b89ff94c62dd7153b (diff) | |
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/nodes/makefuncs.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/backend/nodes/makefuncs.c | 43 |
1 files changed, 22 insertions, 21 deletions
diff --git a/src/backend/nodes/makefuncs.c b/src/backend/nodes/makefuncs.c index c9344f724d3..dae2368b3f1 100644 --- a/src/backend/nodes/makefuncs.c +++ b/src/backend/nodes/makefuncs.c @@ -101,11 +101,17 @@ makeVar(Index varno, * with error cases, but it's not worth changing now.) The vartype indicates * a rowtype; either a named composite type, or RECORD. This function * encapsulates the logic for determining the correct rowtype OID to use. + * + * If allowScalar is true, then for the case where the RTE is a function + * returning a non-composite result type, we produce a normal Var referencing + * the function's result directly, instead of the single-column composite + * value that the whole-row notation might otherwise suggest. */ Var * makeWholeRowVar(RangeTblEntry *rte, Index varno, - Index varlevelsup) + Index varlevelsup, + bool allowScalar) { Var *result; Oid toid; @@ -135,37 +141,32 @@ makeWholeRowVar(RangeTblEntry *rte, -1, varlevelsup); } - else + else if (allowScalar) { - /* - * func returns scalar; instead of making a whole-row Var, - * just reference the function's scalar output. (XXX this - * seems a tad inconsistent, especially if "f.*" was - * explicitly written ...) - */ + /* func returns scalar; just return its output as-is */ result = makeVar(varno, 1, toid, -1, varlevelsup); } - break; - case RTE_VALUES: - toid = RECORDOID; - /* returns composite; same as relation case */ - result = makeVar(varno, - InvalidAttrNumber, - toid, - -1, - varlevelsup); + else + { + /* func returns scalar, but we want a composite result */ + result = makeVar(varno, + InvalidAttrNumber, + RECORDOID, + -1, + varlevelsup); + } break; default: /* - * RTE is a join or subselect. We represent this as a whole-row - * Var of RECORD type. (Note that in most cases the Var will be - * expanded to a RowExpr during planning, but that is not our - * concern here.) + * RTE is a join, subselect, or VALUES. We represent this as a + * whole-row Var of RECORD type. (Note that in most cases the Var + * will be expanded to a RowExpr during planning, but that is not + * our concern here.) */ result = makeVar(varno, InvalidAttrNumber, |
