Re: segfault with incremental sort

From: James Coleman <jtc331(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: luis(dot)roberto(at)siscobra(dot)com(dot)br, pgsql-bugs <pgsql-bugs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>, "alan(dot)formagi" <alan(dot)formagi(at)siscobra(dot)com(dot)br>, Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Subject: Re: segfault with incremental sort
Date: 2020-11-20 19:51:14
Message-ID: CAAaqYe_vihKjc+8LuQa49EHW4+Kfefb3wHqPYFnCuUqozo+LFg@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Nov 3, 2020 at 11:52 AM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>
> 1. The SELECT DISTINCT gives rise to a sort key expression that
> contains non-parallel-safe SubPlans. (It's not immediately apparent
> to me why we don't consider these particular subqueries parallel safe,
> but they aren't. Anyway such a situation surely has to be allowed for.)

parallel.sgml says that parallel query is excluded any time we have
"Plan nodes which reference a correlated SubPlan". That would include
this query, though I'm not sure why that's actually unsafe. I haven't
thought much about the general case, but this query itself looks like
it'd be safe.

James

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