Re: assertion failure with unique index + partitioning + join

Tender Wang <tndrwang@gmail.com>

From: Tender Wang <tndrwang@gmail.com>
To: Richard Guo <guofenglinux@gmail.com>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Alexander Kuzmenkov <akuzmenkov@tigerdata.com>
Date: 2026-06-18T13:01:11Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Richard Guo <guofenglinux@gmail.com> 于2026年6月17日周三 13:51写道:
>
> On Wed, Jun 17, 2026 at 11:00 AM Tender Wang <tndrwang@gmail.com> wrote:
> > In remove_rel_from_eclass(), we have
> > ...
> > if (!IsA(em->em_expr, Var))
> >                 em->em_expr = (Expr *)
> >                     remove_rel_from_phvs((Node *) em->em_expr, relid, ojrelid);
> > ...
> > "where s.id = 1" in the test case, the Const node seems to be able to skip, too.
>
> Good point.  Patch updated.

In remove_rel_from_phvs_mutator(), we have:

else if (IsA(node, Query))
    {
        Query      *newnode;

       ...
   }

I want to find what kind of SQL can enter the above else-if block.
So I added "assert(0)" to the else-if block. But no regression test crashed.
We test rel->baserestrictinfo here. Is it possible that the clause
includes a Query structure?
I know some xxx_mutator() functions in the planner have the same logic
processing pattern.
Is there a need to add a test case to cover the above code?

> Yeah.  remove_rel_from_query() was originally written for left-join
> removal only.  The self-join elimination (SJE) commit grafted
> self-join removal onto it, which made it do more than one thing within
> one function.  Commit 20efbdffe cleaned it up, clarifying the
> separation between the left-join removal and self-join elimination
> code paths within it.  That cleanup was also meant to make it better
> structured for adding new types of join removal, such as inner-join
> removal, in the future.
>
> That said, I agree that the current shape is not ideal.  A better
> structure might be to make remove_rel_from_query() handle only the
> bookkeeping that is common to all removal types, and push the
> type-specific work into the per-type callers.  I think that is worth
> pursuing as separate future work, kept apart from the current bug fix.

Agree.



-- 
Thanks,
Tender Wang



Commits

  1. Strip removed-relation references from PlaceHolderVars at join removal

  2. Clean up remove_rel_from_query() after self-join elimination commit

  3. Fix incorrect handling of subquery pullup