Re: Improper const-evaluation of HAVING with grouping sets and subquery pullup

Andrew Gierth <andrew@tao11.riddles.org.uk>

From: Andrew Gierth <andrew@tao11.riddles.org.uk>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>, Pg Bugs <pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org>
Date: 2017-10-16T15:41:29Z
Lists: pgsql-bugs
>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:

 >> x and y aren't constants, but z is.

 Tom> OK, but that just means we should put PHV wrapping around only the
 Tom> grouping-set columns.

Well, can we also take advantage of the fact that we know that anything
that's not in the grouping-set columns must be in an aggregate argument,
and just omit the PHV inside aggregate args? (And even if grouping
columns appear inside aggregate args, they are _not_ nulled out there.)

 Tom> BTW, also need to think about GS expressions, eg

 Tom> select x+y, sum(z) from (select 1 as x, 2 as y, 3 as z) s
 Tom>  group by grouping sets (x+y);

 Tom> Not real sure what needs to happen here.

That one currently works (note you have to add another grouping set to
test it, since the case of exactly one grouping set is reduced to plain
GROUP BY) because setrefs fixes up the reference after-the-fact,
replacing the outer x+y (or whatever it got munged to) with a Var based
on matching the sortgroupref. This currently fails:

select (x+y)*1, sum(z) from (select 1 as x, 2 as y, 3 as z) s
 group by grouping sets (x+y, x);

because the logic in setrefs that would normally detect that (x+y)
exists in the child tlist doesn't fire because the whole expression was
replaced by a constant.

With the patch to use PHVs it works, but I admit to some confusion over
exactly why.

-- 
Andrew (irc:RhodiumToad)


Commits

  1. Fix incorrect handling of subquery pullup in the presence of grouping sets.

  2. Make setrefs.c match by ressortgroupref even for plain Vars.

  3. Make the upper part of the planner work by generating and comparing Paths.