Re: foreign join error "variable not found in subplan target list"

Richard Guo <guofenglinux@gmail.com>

From: Richard Guo <guofenglinux@gmail.com>
To: Etsuro Fujita <etsuro.fujita@gmail.com>
Cc: Alexander Pyhalov <a.pyhalov@postgrespro.ru>, PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-bugs@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2022-08-29T09:45:50Z
Lists: pgsql-bugs
On Mon, Aug 29, 2022 at 2:17 PM Etsuro Fujita <etsuro.fujita@gmail.com>
wrote:

> One thing I noticed while re-reading the patch is that we should use
> create_projection_path() here, to avoid modifying the epq_path in
> place, as it is already used for an unsorted join-pushdown path before
> we get here.  So I modified the patch as such.  Updated patch
> attached.


The new change looks reasonable to me as there is other ref to this
epq_path.

I'm looking again on how we adjust the PathTarget, and I think we may
need to update the cost and width fields if there are any new columns
added. Maybe we can leverage set_pathtarget_cost_width for that.

Thanks
Richard

Commits

  1. postgres_fdw: Avoid 'variable not found in subplan target list' error.