Re: pgsql: Fix another join removal bug: the check on PlaceHolderVars was w

From: David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-committers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: pgsql: Fix another join removal bug: the check on PlaceHolderVars was w
Date: 2010-09-26 00:29:16
Message-ID: 20100926002916.GA22240@fetter.org
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On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 11:04:28PM +0000, Tom Lane wrote:
> Fix another join removal bug: the check on PlaceHolderVars was
> wrong.
>
> The previous coding would decide that join removal was unsafe upon
> finding a PlaceHolderVar that needed to be evaluated at the inner
> rel and then used above the join. However, this fails to cover the
> case of PlaceHolderVars that refer to both the inner rel and some
> other rels. Per bug report from Andrus.

The person who found it originally was Kirill (xitology) Simonov. He
brought it up in IRC. :)

Cheers,
David.
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