Fix partial aggregation for the case of a degenerate GROUP BY clause.

The plan generated for sorted partial aggregation with "GROUP BY constant"
included a Sort node with no sort keys, which the executor does not like.

Per report from Steve Randall.  I'd add a regression test case if I could
think of a compact one, but it doesn't seem worth expending lots of cycles
on.

Report: <CABVd52UAdGXpg_rCk46egpNKYdXOzCjuJ1zG26E2xBe_8bj+Fg@mail.gmail.com>

diff --git a/src/backend/optimizer/plan/planner.c b/src/backend/optimizer/plan/planner.c
index 644b8b6763d6aab7d94a59c6fb65f84be5a6faed..d8c5dd34d6a314a9d229b4dfceb20cf1c3aef82d 100644 (file)
--- a/src/backend/optimizer/plan/planner.c
+++ b/src/backend/optimizer/plan/planner.c
@@ -3741,11 +3741,11 @@ create_grouping_paths(PlannerInfo *root,
                                                                                           &total_groups);
 
                        /*
-                        * Gather is always unsorted, so we'll need to sort, unless
-                        * there's no GROUP BY clause, in which case there will only be a
-                        * single group.
+                        * Since Gather's output is always unsorted, we'll need to sort,
+                        * unless there's no GROUP BY clause or a degenerate (constant)
+                        * one, in which case there will only be a single group.
                         */
-                       if (parse->groupClause)
+                       if (root->group_pathkeys)
                                path = (Path *) create_sort_path(root,
                                                                                                 grouped_rel,
                                                                                                 path,