pgsql: Fix replace_property_refs() ignoring the root of expression tree

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org>
To: pgsql-committers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: pgsql: Fix replace_property_refs() ignoring the root of expression tree
Date: 2026-07-08 08:08:02
Message-ID: E1whNK5-0007X2-2d@gemulon.postgresql.org
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Fix replace_property_refs() ignoring the root of expression tree

replace_property_refs() called expression_tree_mutator() with the root
of the expression tree as the input node. But
expression_tree_mutator() does not call the mutator function on the
root node, so the root node remains unchanged. If the root node is a
property reference or a lateral reference -- the two node kinds that
replace_property_refs_mutator() rewrites -- it is returned unchanged.
Modules after the rewriter do not know about property reference nodes,
resulting in "ERROR: unrecognized node type: 63". Since varlevelsup
of lateral references is not incremented, they are not resolved
correctly in the planner, leading to many different symptoms. Fix
this by calling replace_property_refs_mutator() directly from
replace_property_refs(), similar to how other mutator functions do.

The only case when a property reference or a lateral reference can be
the root of a GRAPH_TABLE expression tree is when it is a bare
property reference or a bare lateral reference in the WHERE clause.
The COLUMNS clause is passed to replace_property_refs() as a
targetlist. Every other expression has at least one expression node
covering the property reference or a lateral reference in the
expression tree. That explains why this bug was not seen so far.

Author: Ashutosh Bapat <ashutosh(dot)bapat(dot)oss(at)gmail(dot)com>
Reported-by: Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/20260630173053.51.noahmisch%40microsoft.com

Branch
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REL_19_STABLE

Details
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/7883ea13ffdc6c657923031d80b2505d08f51e33

Modified Files
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src/backend/rewrite/rewriteGraphTable.c | 2 +-
src/test/regress/expected/graph_table.out | 38 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------
src/test/regress/sql/graph_table.sql | 17 +++++++++-----
3 files changed, 41 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

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