Re: pgsql: Avoid premature free of pass-by-reference CALL arguments.

On 2018-02-10 18:37:17 +0000, Tom Lane wrote:
> Avoid premature free of pass-by-reference CALL arguments.

> src/test/regress/expected/create_procedure.out | 12 +++++++----
> src/test/regress/sql/create_procedure.sql      |  4 +++-
> 3 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

There's a recent llvm buildfarm animal failure related to this:
https://buildfarm.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=pogona&dt=2018-03-24%2020%3A10%3A01

*** /home/bf/build/buildfarm-pogona/HEAD/pgsql.build/../pgsql/src/test/regress/expected/create_procedure.out
2018-03-2308:10:44.326010286 +0100
 
--- /home/bf/build/buildfarm-pogona/HEAD/pgsql.build/src/test/regress/results/create_procedure.out    2018-03-24
21:15:28.749352165+0100
 
***************
*** 44,50 ****
  SELECT * FROM cp_test ORDER BY b COLLATE "C";
   a |   b   
  ---+-------
!  1 | 0
   1 | a
   1 | xyzzy
  (3 rows)
--- 44,50 ----
  SELECT * FROM cp_test ORDER BY b COLLATE "C";
   a |   b   
  ---+-------
!  1 | 9
   1 | a
   1 | xyzzy
  (3 rows)

With the differening output created by:

CREATE PROCEDURE ptest1(x text)
LANGUAGE SQL
AS $$
INSERT INTO cp_test VALUES (1, x);
$$;
CALL ptest1(substring(random()::text, 1, 1));  -- ok, volatile arg

At first I was gosh darned confused, this really didn't seem likely to
be an LLVM induced failure. And it turns out it isn't.  If the value
returned by random() is very small, the text representation switches to
scientific notation like 8.26204195618629e-05.

So, perhaps we should choose a different volatile function here?

Greetings,

Andres Freund