Fix SELECT DISTINCT with index-optimized MIN/MAX on inheritance trees.

In a query such as "SELECT DISTINCT min(x) FROM tab", the DISTINCT is
pretty useless (there being only one output row), but nonetheless it
shouldn't fail.  But it could fail if "tab" is an inheritance parent,
because planagg.c's code for fixing up equivalence classes after making the
index-optimized MIN/MAX transformation wasn't prepared to find child-table
versions of the aggregate expression.  The least ugly fix seems to be
to add an option to mutate_eclass_expressions() to skip child-table
equivalence class members, which aren't used anymore at this stage of
planning so it's not really necessary to fix them.  Since child members
are ignored in many cases already, it seems plausible for
mutate_eclass_expressions() to have an option to ignore them too.

Per bug #7703 from Maxim Boguk.

Back-patch to 9.1.  Although the same code exists before that, it cannot
encounter child-table aggregates AFAICS, because the index optimization
transformation cannot succeed on inheritance trees before 9.1 (for lack
of MergeAppend).

2 files changed, 13 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/src/backend/optimizer/path/equivclass.c b/src/backend/optimizer/path/equivclass.c
index 58553df3140..632295197a9 100644
--- a/src/backend/optimizer/path/equivclass.c
+++ b/src/backend/optimizer/path/equivclass.c
@@ -1973,12 +1973,12 @@ add_child_rel_equivalences(PlannerInfo *root,
 /*
  * mutate_eclass_expressions
  *	  Apply an expression tree mutator to all expressions stored in
- *	  equivalence classes.
+ *	  equivalence classes (but ignore child exprs unless include_child_exprs).
  *
  * This is a bit of a hack ... it's currently needed only by planagg.c,
  * which needs to do a global search-and-replace of MIN/MAX Aggrefs
  * after eclasses are already set up.  Without changing the eclasses too,
- * subsequent matching of ORDER BY clauses would fail.
+ * subsequent matching of ORDER BY and DISTINCT clauses would fail.
  *
  * Note that we assume the mutation won't affect relation membership or any
  * other properties we keep track of (which is a bit bogus, but by the time
@@ -1988,7 +1988,8 @@ add_child_rel_equivalences(PlannerInfo *root,
 void
 mutate_eclass_expressions(PlannerInfo *root,
 						  Node *(*mutator) (),
-						  void *context)
+						  void *context,
+						  bool include_child_exprs)
 {
 	ListCell   *lc1;
 
@@ -2001,6 +2002,9 @@ mutate_eclass_expressions(PlannerInfo *root,
 		{
 			EquivalenceMember *cur_em = (EquivalenceMember *) lfirst(lc2);
 
+			if (cur_em->em_is_child && !include_child_exprs)
+				continue;		/* ignore children unless requested */
+
 			cur_em->em_expr = (Expr *)
 				mutator((Node *) cur_em->em_expr, context);
 		}
diff --git a/src/backend/optimizer/plan/planagg.c b/src/backend/optimizer/plan/planagg.c
index 55a5ed7b4c6..658a4abc315 100644
--- a/src/backend/optimizer/plan/planagg.c
+++ b/src/backend/optimizer/plan/planagg.c
@@ -257,7 +257,10 @@ optimize_minmax_aggregates(PlannerInfo *root, List *tlist,
 
 	/*
 	 * We have to replace Aggrefs with Params in equivalence classes too, else
-	 * ORDER BY or DISTINCT on an optimized aggregate will fail.
+	 * ORDER BY or DISTINCT on an optimized aggregate will fail.  We don't
+	 * need to process child eclass members though, since they aren't of
+	 * interest anymore --- and replace_aggs_with_params_mutator isn't able
+	 * to handle Aggrefs containing translated child Vars, anyway.
 	 *
 	 * Note: at some point it might become necessary to mutate other data
 	 * structures too, such as the query's sortClause or distinctClause. Right
@@ -265,7 +268,8 @@ optimize_minmax_aggregates(PlannerInfo *root, List *tlist,
 	 */
 	mutate_eclass_expressions(root,
 							  replace_aggs_with_params_mutator,
-							  (void *) root);
+							  (void *) root,
+							  false);
 
 	/*
 	 * Generate the output plan --- basically just a Result