Re: Bogus EPQ plan construction in postgres_fdw

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Bogus EPQ plan construction in postgres_fdw
Date: 2018-12-14 22:07:00
Message-ID: CA+TgmoYp0hqiW=EK+=T+u37AQn=qB-kknoO+n4xkuT9C1x4ukA@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 8:00 PM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> By chance I noticed that postgres_fdw's postgresGetForeignPlan() assumes
> --- without any checking --- that the outer_plan it's given for a join
> relation must have a NestLoop, MergeJoin, or HashJoin node at the top.
> That's been wrong at least since commit 4bbf6edfb (which could cause
> insertion of a Sort node on top) and it seems like a pretty unsafe
> thing to Just Assume even without that.

Thanks for taking care of this. I've looked at this code any number
of times and never quite noticed the assumption that outer_plan had to
be a join.

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Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company

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