Re: pg17: XX000: no relation entry for relid 0

Tender Wang <tndrwang@gmail.com>

From: Tender Wang <tndrwang@gmail.com>
To: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org, Paul Jungwirth <pj@illuminatedcomputing.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 2026-04-10T12:49:24Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com> 于2026年4月10日周五 18:54写道:
>
> CREATE VIEW x AS SELECT NULL::int[]
> UNION ALL SELECT NULL::int[]
> UNION ALL SELECT ARRAY[NULL::bigint];
>
> SELECT FROM x;
> ERROR:  XX000: no relation entry for relid 0
>
> Since 9391f7152.
The varno = 0 is from below code:

*pTargetList = generate_setop_tlist(colTypes, colCollations,
                                                0,
                                                false,
                                                *pTargetList,
                                                refnames_tlist,
                                                &trivial_tlist);
            *istrivial_tlist = trivial_tlist;
            target = create_pathtarget(root, *pTargetList);

in recurse_set_operations().
When calling set_pathtarget_cost_width(), we estimate the length of
the array that would enter estimate_array_length().
Before 9391f7152, we returned 10 directly.  But now, we see if we can
find any statistics about it.
In examine_variable(), try to find base_rel in find_base_rel(), error
reported. Because the varno of the Var is 0.

I didn't think too much at now, a quick fix as below:
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/selfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/selfuncs.c
index 4160d2d6e24..ff93fc3ac8a 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/selfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/selfuncs.c
@@ -2265,6 +2265,9 @@ estimate_array_length(PlannerInfo *root, Node *arrayexpr)
                AttStatsSlot sslot;
                double          nelem = 0;

+               if (IsA(arrayexpr, Var) && ((Var *) arrayexpr)->varno == 0)
+                       return 10;
+
                examine_variable(root, arrayexpr, 0, &vardata);
                if (HeapTupleIsValid(vardata.statsTuple))
                {

Any thoughts?

-- 
Thanks,
Tender Wang



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