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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/include/nodes/makefuncs.h | |
| 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/include/nodes/makefuncs.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/include/nodes/makefuncs.h | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/include/nodes/makefuncs.h b/src/include/nodes/makefuncs.h index 6d009a2bbab..69e2b17b871 100644 --- a/src/include/nodes/makefuncs.h +++ b/src/include/nodes/makefuncs.h @@ -31,7 +31,8 @@ extern Var *makeVar(Index varno, extern Var *makeWholeRowVar(RangeTblEntry *rte, Index varno, - Index varlevelsup); + Index varlevelsup, + bool allowScalar); extern TargetEntry *makeTargetEntry(Expr *expr, AttrNumber resno, |
