Invalid query generated by postgres_fdw with UNION ALL and ORDER BY

SELECT * FROM (

  SELECT 2023 AS year, * FROM remote_table_1

  UNION ALL

  SELECT 2022 AS year, * FROM remote_table_2

)

ORDER BY year DESC;

yields the following remote query:

SELECT [columns] FROM remote_table_1 ORDER BY 2023 DESC

and subsequently fails remote execution.

Not really sure where the problem is - the planner or postgres_fdw.

I guess it is postgres_fdw not filtering out ordering keys.

This filtering would also be pretty useful in the following scenario (which is also why I went through UNION ALL route and discovered this issue):

I have a table partitioned by year, partitions are remote tables.

On remote servers I have a GIST index that does not support ordering ([1]) so I would like to avoid sending ORDER BY year to remote servers.

Ideally redundant ordering should be filtered out.

[1] https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/B2AC13F9-6655-4E27-BFD3-068844E5DC91%40kleczek.org

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Kind regards,

Michal