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Change post-rewriter representation of dropped columns in joinaliasvars.
authorTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Tue, 23 Jul 2013 20:23:08 +0000 (16:23 -0400)
committerTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Tue, 23 Jul 2013 20:23:08 +0000 (16:23 -0400)
It's possible to drop a column from an input table of a JOIN clause in a
view, if that column is nowhere actually referenced in the view.  But it
will still be there in the JOIN clause's joinaliasvars list.  We used to
replace such entries with NULL Const nodes, which is handy for generation
of RowExpr expansion of a whole-row reference to the view.  The trouble
with that is that it can't be distinguished from the situation after
subquery pull-up of a constant subquery output expression below the JOIN.
Instead, replace such joinaliasvars with null pointers (empty expression
trees), which can't be confused with pulled-up expressions.  expandRTE()
still emits the old convention, though, for convenience of RowExpr
generation and to reduce the risk of breaking extension code.

In HEAD and 9.3, this patch also fixes a problem with some new code in
ruleutils.c that was failing to cope with implicitly-casted joinaliasvars
entries, as per recent report from Feike Steenbergen.  That oversight was
because of an inadequate description of the data structure in parsenodes.h,
which I've now corrected.  There were some pre-existing oversights of the
same ilk elsewhere, which I believe are now all fixed.

src/backend/optimizer/util/var.c
src/backend/parser/parse_relation.c
src/backend/parser/parse_target.c
src/backend/rewrite/rewriteHandler.c
src/backend/utils/adt/ruleutils.c
src/include/nodes/parsenodes.h

index 9bc90c253139deb43415683800681f48fe0c8436..e59f0e137143f49625ff988e538330b1dd76928c 100644 (file)
@@ -795,7 +795,7 @@ flatten_join_alias_vars_mutator(Node *node,
                                newvar = (Node *) lfirst(lv);
                                attnum++;
                                /* Ignore dropped columns */
-                               if (IsA(newvar, Const))
+                               if (newvar == NULL)
                                        continue;
                                newvar = copyObject(newvar);
 
@@ -828,6 +828,7 @@ flatten_join_alias_vars_mutator(Node *node,
                /* Expand join alias reference */
                Assert(var->varattno > 0);
                newvar = (Node *) list_nth(rte->joinaliasvars, var->varattno - 1);
+               Assert(newvar != NULL);
                newvar = copyObject(newvar);
 
                /*
index 3f2177b9affcfd7c0618b47fc46d93ddff42f277..fbc4d4440717e56380ab9b2106a7f7f40aa7f978 100644 (file)
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
 #include "funcapi.h"
 #include "nodes/makefuncs.h"
 #include "nodes/nodeFuncs.h"
+#include "optimizer/clauses.h"
 #include "parser/parsetree.h"
 #include "parser/parse_relation.h"
 #include "parser/parse_type.h"
@@ -661,14 +662,15 @@ markRTEForSelectPriv(ParseState *pstate, RangeTblEntry *rte,
                         * The aliasvar could be either a Var or a COALESCE expression,
                         * but in the latter case we should already have marked the two
                         * referent variables as being selected, due to their use in the
-                        * JOIN clause.  So we need only be concerned with the simple Var
-                        * case.
+                        * JOIN clause.  So we need only be concerned with the Var case.
+                        * But we do need to drill down through implicit coercions.
                         */
                        Var                *aliasvar;
 
                        Assert(col > 0 && col <= list_length(rte->joinaliasvars));
                        aliasvar = (Var *) list_nth(rte->joinaliasvars, col - 1);
-                       if (IsA(aliasvar, Var))
+                       aliasvar = (Var *) strip_implicit_coercions((Node *) aliasvar);
+                       if (aliasvar && IsA(aliasvar, Var))
                                markVarForSelectPriv(pstate, aliasvar, NULL);
                }
        }
@@ -1762,10 +1764,10 @@ expandRTE(RangeTblEntry *rte, int rtindex, int sublevels_up,
                                         * deleted columns in the join; but we have to check since
                                         * this routine is also used by the rewriter, and joins
                                         * found in stored rules might have join columns for
-                                        * since-deleted columns.  This will be signaled by a NULL
-                                        * Const in the alias-vars list.
+                                        * since-deleted columns.  This will be signaled by a null
+                                        * pointer in the alias-vars list.
                                         */
-                                       if (IsA(avar, Const))
+                                       if (avar == NULL)
                                        {
                                                if (include_dropped)
                                                {
@@ -1773,8 +1775,16 @@ expandRTE(RangeTblEntry *rte, int rtindex, int sublevels_up,
                                                                *colnames = lappend(*colnames,
                                                                                                        makeString(pstrdup("")));
                                                        if (colvars)
+                                                       {
+                                                               /*
+                                                                * Can't use join's column type here (it might
+                                                                * be dropped!); but it doesn't really matter
+                                                                * what type the Const claims to be.
+                                                                */
                                                                *colvars = lappend(*colvars,
-                                                                                                  copyObject(avar));
+                                                                                                  makeNullConst(INT4OID, -1,
+                                                                                                                                InvalidOid));
+                                                       }
                                                }
                                                continue;
                                        }
@@ -2163,6 +2173,7 @@ get_rte_attribute_type(RangeTblEntry *rte, AttrNumber attnum,
 
                                Assert(attnum > 0 && attnum <= list_length(rte->joinaliasvars));
                                aliasvar = (Node *) list_nth(rte->joinaliasvars, attnum - 1);
+                               Assert(aliasvar != NULL);
                                *vartype = exprType(aliasvar);
                                *vartypmod = exprTypmod(aliasvar);
                                *varcollid = exprCollation(aliasvar);
@@ -2225,7 +2236,7 @@ get_rte_attribute_is_dropped(RangeTblEntry *rte, AttrNumber attnum)
                                 * but one in a stored rule might contain columns that were
                                 * dropped from the underlying tables, if said columns are
                                 * nowhere explicitly referenced in the rule.  This will be
-                                * signaled to us by a NULL Const in the joinaliasvars list.
+                                * signaled to us by a null pointer in the joinaliasvars list.
                                 */
                                Var                *aliasvar;
 
@@ -2234,7 +2245,7 @@ get_rte_attribute_is_dropped(RangeTblEntry *rte, AttrNumber attnum)
                                        elog(ERROR, "invalid varattno %d", attnum);
                                aliasvar = (Var *) list_nth(rte->joinaliasvars, attnum - 1);
 
-                               result = IsA(aliasvar, Const);
+                               result = (aliasvar == NULL);
                        }
                        break;
                case RTE_FUNCTION:
index 3850a3bc646f3e32dc293240a78ef8ed72aa8500..e2f5a6a780bc976bc050ca1479fa311becc7ac38 100644 (file)
@@ -305,6 +305,7 @@ markTargetListOrigin(ParseState *pstate, TargetEntry *tle,
 
                                Assert(attnum > 0 && attnum <= list_length(rte->joinaliasvars));
                                aliasvar = (Var *) list_nth(rte->joinaliasvars, attnum - 1);
+                               /* We intentionally don't strip implicit coercions here */
                                markTargetListOrigin(pstate, tle, aliasvar, netlevelsup);
                        }
                        break;
@@ -1420,6 +1421,8 @@ expandRecordVariable(ParseState *pstate, Var *var, int levelsup)
                        /* Join RTE --- recursively inspect the alias variable */
                        Assert(attnum > 0 && attnum <= list_length(rte->joinaliasvars));
                        expr = (Node *) list_nth(rte->joinaliasvars, attnum - 1);
+                       Assert(expr != NULL);
+                       /* We intentionally don't strip implicit coercions here */
                        if (IsA(expr, Var))
                                return expandRecordVariable(pstate, (Var *) expr, netlevelsup);
                        /* else fall through to inspect the expression */
index 8f75948d0dd399e21fab2053064cfd43d7b38c43..93dcf69881a568f5fbb39ec9e0980669e466b806 100644 (file)
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
 #include "commands/trigger.h"
 #include "nodes/makefuncs.h"
 #include "nodes/nodeFuncs.h"
+#include "optimizer/clauses.h"
 #include "parser/analyze.h"
 #include "parser/parse_coerce.h"
 #include "parser/parsetree.h"
@@ -89,9 +90,8 @@ static Query *fireRIRrules(Query *parsetree, List *activeRIRs,
  * such a list in a stored rule to include references to dropped columns.
  * (If the column is not explicitly referenced anywhere else in the query,
  * the dependency mechanism won't consider it used by the rule and so won't
- * prevent the column drop.)  To support get_rte_attribute_is_dropped(),
- * we replace join alias vars that reference dropped columns with NULL Const
- * nodes.
+ * prevent the column drop.)  To support get_rte_attribute_is_dropped(), we
+ * replace join alias vars that reference dropped columns with null pointers.
  *
  * (In PostgreSQL 8.0, we did not do this processing but instead had
  * get_rte_attribute_is_dropped() recurse to detect dropped columns in joins.
@@ -158,8 +158,8 @@ AcquireRewriteLocks(Query *parsetree, bool forUpdatePushedDown)
 
                                /*
                                 * Scan the join's alias var list to see if any columns have
-                                * been dropped, and if so replace those Vars with NULL
-                                * Consts.
+                                * been dropped, and if so replace those Vars with null
+                                * pointers.
                                 *
                                 * Since a join has only two inputs, we can expect to see
                                 * multiple references to the same input RTE; optimize away
@@ -170,16 +170,20 @@ AcquireRewriteLocks(Query *parsetree, bool forUpdatePushedDown)
                                curinputrte = NULL;
                                foreach(ll, rte->joinaliasvars)
                                {
-                                       Var                *aliasvar = (Var *) lfirst(ll);
+                                       Var                *aliasitem = (Var *) lfirst(ll);
+                                       Var                *aliasvar = aliasitem;
+
+                                       /* Look through any implicit coercion */
+                                       aliasvar = (Var *) strip_implicit_coercions((Node *) aliasvar);
 
                                        /*
                                         * If the list item isn't a simple Var, then it must
                                         * represent a merged column, ie a USING column, and so it
                                         * couldn't possibly be dropped, since it's referenced in
-                                        * the join clause.  (Conceivably it could also be a NULL
-                                        * constant already?  But that's OK too.)
+                                        * the join clause.  (Conceivably it could also be a null
+                                        * pointer already?  But that's OK too.)
                                         */
-                                       if (IsA(aliasvar, Var))
+                                       if (aliasvar && IsA(aliasvar, Var))
                                        {
                                                /*
                                                 * The elements of an alias list have to refer to
@@ -203,15 +207,11 @@ AcquireRewriteLocks(Query *parsetree, bool forUpdatePushedDown)
                                                if (get_rte_attribute_is_dropped(curinputrte,
                                                                                                                 aliasvar->varattno))
                                                {
-                                                       /*
-                                                        * can't use vartype here, since that might be a
-                                                        * now-dropped type OID, but it doesn't really
-                                                        * matter what type the Const claims to be.
-                                                        */
-                                                       aliasvar = (Var *) makeNullConst(INT4OID, -1, InvalidOid);
+                                                       /* Replace the join alias item with a NULL */
+                                                       aliasitem = NULL;
                                                }
                                        }
-                                       newaliasvars = lappend(newaliasvars, aliasvar);
+                                       newaliasvars = lappend(newaliasvars, aliasitem);
                                }
                                rte->joinaliasvars = newaliasvars;
                                break;
index 737ad37472acd979178fdaf2b49ee4fe0a8620bd..c05d7e9e5613798aca89e7377aa6e0519f74a618 100644 (file)
@@ -4015,7 +4015,8 @@ get_variable(Var *var, int levelsup, bool istoplevel, deparse_context *context)
                                Var                *aliasvar;
 
                                aliasvar = (Var *) list_nth(rte->joinaliasvars, attnum - 1);
-                               if (IsA(aliasvar, Var))
+                               /* we intentionally don't strip implicit coercions here */
+                               if (aliasvar && IsA(aliasvar, Var))
                                {
                                        return get_variable(aliasvar, var->varlevelsup + levelsup,
                                                                                istoplevel, context);
@@ -4322,6 +4323,8 @@ get_name_for_var_field(Var *var, int fieldno,
                                elog(ERROR, "cannot decompile join alias var in plan tree");
                        Assert(attnum > 0 && attnum <= list_length(rte->joinaliasvars));
                        expr = (Node *) list_nth(rte->joinaliasvars, attnum - 1);
+                       Assert(expr != NULL);
+                       /* we intentionally don't strip implicit coercions here */
                        if (IsA(expr, Var))
                                return get_name_for_var_field((Var *) expr, fieldno,
                                                                                          var->varlevelsup + levelsup,
index 2997a2ab69e844d1cf3615291587dd847e42a747..327f7cf07489f85d329e34c1699c786cc3f217a8 100644 (file)
@@ -640,7 +640,7 @@ typedef struct XmlSerialize
  *       a stored rule might contain entries for columns dropped since the rule
  *       was created.  (This is only possible for columns not actually referenced
  *       in the rule.)  When loading a stored rule, we replace the joinaliasvars
- *       items for any such columns with NULL Consts.  (We can't simply delete
+ *       items for any such columns with null pointers.  (We can't simply delete
  *       them from the joinaliasvars list, because that would affect the attnums
  *       of Vars referencing the rest of the list.)
  *
@@ -711,13 +711,19 @@ typedef struct RangeTblEntry
        /*
         * Fields valid for a join RTE (else NULL/zero):
         *
-        * joinaliasvars is a list of Vars or COALESCE expressions corresponding
-        * to the columns of the join result.  An alias Var referencing column K
-        * of the join result can be replaced by the K'th element of joinaliasvars
-        * --- but to simplify the task of reverse-listing aliases correctly, we
-        * do not do that until planning time.  In a Query loaded from a stored
-        * rule, it is also possible for joinaliasvars items to be NULL Consts,
-        * denoting columns dropped since the rule was made.
+        * joinaliasvars is a list of (usually) Vars corresponding to the columns
+        * of the join result.  An alias Var referencing column K of the join
+        * result can be replaced by the K'th element of joinaliasvars --- but to
+        * simplify the task of reverse-listing aliases correctly, we do not do
+        * that until planning time.  In detail: an element of joinaliasvars can
+        * be a Var of one of the join's input relations, or such a Var with an
+        * implicit coercion to the join's output column type, or a COALESCE
+        * expression containing the two input column Vars (possibly coerced).
+        * Within a Query loaded from a stored rule, it is also possible for
+        * joinaliasvars items to be null pointers, which are placeholders for
+        * (necessarily unreferenced) columns dropped since the rule was made.
+        * Also, once planning begins, joinaliasvars items can be almost anything,
+        * as a result of subquery-flattening substitutions.
         */
        JoinType        jointype;               /* type of join */
        List       *joinaliasvars;      /* list of alias-var expansions */