Re: CLUSTER sort on abbreviated expressions is broken

From: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie>
To: Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: John Naylor <john(dot)naylor(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: CLUSTER sort on abbreviated expressions is broken
Date: 2022-04-12 18:01:10
Message-ID: CAH2-Wzk9qO=zfRgwM4p19hQ=+fMij5hXHwtBWHmBCnws=9WKdw@mail.gmail.com
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On Sun, Apr 3, 2022 at 4:34 PM Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> I probably should have made it clearer in the commit message,
> cc58eecc5 doesn't fix this problem in the master branch. It only
> fixes the code that incorrectly assumed that datum1 was always
> available.

Attached patch fixes the issue, and includes the test case that you posted.

There is only a one line change to tuplesort.c. This is arguably the
same bug -- abbreviation is just another "haveDatum1 optimization"
that needs to be accounted for.

--
Peter Geoghegan

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v1-0001-Fix-CLUSTER-sort-on-abbreviated-expressions.patch application/octet-stream 3.3 KB

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