pgsql: Fix improper repetition of previous results from a hashed aggreg

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: pgsql-committers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: pgsql: Fix improper repetition of previous results from a hashed aggreg
Date: 2016-08-24 18:38:29
Message-ID: E1bcd4H-0001J5-7a@gemulon.postgresql.org
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Fix improper repetition of previous results from a hashed aggregate.

ExecReScanAgg's check for whether it could re-use a previously calculated
hashtable neglected the possibility that the Agg node might reference
PARAM_EXEC Params that are not referenced by its input plan node. That's
okay if the Params are in upper tlist or qual expressions; but if one
appears in aggregate input expressions, then the hashtable contents need
to be recomputed when the Param's value changes.

To avoid unnecessary performance degradation in the case of a Param that
isn't within an aggregate input, add logic to the planner to determine
which Params are within aggregate inputs. This requires a new field in
struct Agg, but fortunately we never write plans to disk, so this isn't
an initdb-forcing change.

Per report from Jeevan Chalke. This has been broken since forever,
so back-patch to all supported branches.

Andrew Gierth, with minor adjustments by me

Report: <CAM2+6=VY8ykfLT5Q8vb9B6EbeBk-NGuLbT6seaQ+Fq4zXvrDcA(at)mail(dot)gmail(dot)com>

Branch
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REL9_2_STABLE

Details
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http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/23766389746db981626e55518d29001bae3181a2

Modified Files
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src/backend/executor/nodeAgg.c | 15 ++++++----
src/backend/nodes/copyfuncs.c | 1 +
src/backend/nodes/outfuncs.c | 1 +
src/backend/optimizer/plan/createplan.c | 1 +
src/backend/optimizer/plan/subselect.c | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
src/include/nodes/plannodes.h | 2 ++
src/test/regress/expected/aggregates.out | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++
src/test/regress/sql/aggregates.sql | 10 +++++++
8 files changed, 102 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

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