Fix erroneous hash calculations in gin_extract_jsonb_path().

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

Commit: b23af458755ed90ae9164857e59d034bad75a672
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 2015-11-05T23:15:48Z
Releases: 9.6.0
Fix erroneous hash calculations in gin_extract_jsonb_path().

The jsonb_path_ops code calculated hash values inconsistently in some cases
involving nested arrays and objects.  This would result in queries possibly
not finding entries that they should find, when using a jsonb_path_ops GIN
index for the search.  The problem cases involve JSONB values that contain
both scalars and sub-objects at the same nesting level, for example an
array containing both scalars and sub-arrays.  To fix, reset the current
stack->hash after processing each value or sub-object, not before; and
don't try to be cute about the outermost level's initial hash.

Correcting this means that existing jsonb_path_ops indexes may now be
inconsistent with the new hash calculation code.  The symptom is the same
--- searches not finding entries they should find --- but the specific
rows affected are likely to be different.  Users will need to REINDEX
jsonb_path_ops indexes to make sure that all searches work as expected.

Per bug #13756 from Daniel Cheng.  Back-patch to 9.4 where the faulty
logic was introduced.

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