Re: [HACKERS] inherited GROUP BY is busted ... I need some help here

Tom, is this still an open item?

> I've been chasing Chris Bitmead's coredump report from earlier today.
> I find that it can be reproduced very easily. For example:
> regression=> select f1 from int4_tbl group by f1;
> < no problem >
> regression=> select f1 from int4_tbl* group by f1;
> < core dump >
>
> (You may get unstable behavior rather than a reliable core dump
> if you are not configured --enable-cassert.)
>
> The problem seems to be in optimizer/plan/planner.c, which is
> responsible for creating the Sort and Group plan nodes needed to
> implement GROUP BY. It also has to mark the lower plan's targetlist
> items with resdom->reskey numbers so that the executor will know which
> items to use for sort keys (cf. FormSortKeys in executor/nodeSort.c).
> The trouble is that that latter marking is done in planner.c's
> make_subplanTargetList(), which *is never invoked* for a query that
> involves inheritance. union_planner() only calls it if the given plan
> involves neither UNION nor inheritance. In the UNION case, recursion
> into union_planner does the right thing, but not so in the inheritance
> case.
>
> I rewrote some of this code a couple months ago, but I find that 6.4.2
> has similar problems, so at least I can say I didn't break it ;-).
>
> It seems clear that at least some of the processing that union_planner
> does in the simple case (the "else" part of its first big if-then-else)
> also needs to be done in the inheritance case (and perhaps also in
> the UNION case?). But I'm not sure exactly what. There's a lot going
> on in this chunk of code, and I don't understand very much of it.
> I could really use some advice...
>
> regards, tom lane
>
>

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