pgsql: Remove redundant null-treatment check in window function dedup.

From: Tatsuo Ishii <ishii(at)postgresql(dot)org>
To: pgsql-committers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: pgsql: Remove redundant null-treatment check in window function dedup.
Date: 2026-07-19 01:51:34
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Remove redundant null-treatment check in window function dedup.

Commit 25a30bbd423 (IGNORE NULLS / RESPECT NULLS for window functions)
made ExecInitWindowAgg() treat two otherwise-equal window functions as
duplicates only when their ignore_nulls settings also matched:

if (i <= wfuncno && wfunc->ignore_nulls == perfunc[i].ignore_nulls)

That extra term reads WindowStatePerFuncData.ignore_nulls, but the field
was never populated when a per-function entry was filled in, so it stayed
zero from palloc0_array(). Consequently a duplicate call carrying
IGNORE NULLS or an explicit RESPECT NULLS never matched an identical
earlier entry and was needlessly given its own per-function slot and
evaluated twice. (Results stayed correct; this was a missed sharing, not
a wrong answer.)

The extra term is in fact redundant. WindowFunc.ignore_nulls is a plain
scalar field with no pg_node_attr, so _equalWindowFunc() already compares
it; the preceding equal() call therefore never matches two WindowFuncs
that differ only in null treatment. If equal() matches, ignore_nulls
necessarily matched too, so the term can never change the outcome, and
WindowStatePerFuncData.ignore_nulls existed only to feed it.

Rather than populate the shadow field, drop the redundant term and the
field (and adjust the now-stale comment) and let equal() do the work.
That fixes the same bug while removing the hand-maintained duplicate
state that caused it, so it cannot silently drift again.

Author: Chao Li <li(dot)evan(dot)chao(at)gmail(dot)com>
Co-authored-by: Ewan Young <kdbase(dot)hack(at)gmail(dot)com>
Reviewed-by: Tatsuo Ishii <ishii(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/5D2C9081-5DFE-4E27-AB14-7358238EA1BC%40gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 19

Branch
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REL_19_STABLE

Details
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/829bacaeb323e4811eb804b5e4e29f643a0c619d

Modified Files
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src/backend/executor/nodeWindowAgg.c | 8 ++------
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

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