On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 8:36 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 7:41 AM, Ashutosh Bapat
> <ashutosh.bapat@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
>> postgres_fdw isn't expected to push down joins with placeholder vars.
>> But the check for that in foreign_join_ok() only considers
>> joinrel->relids. For a child-join relids contains the child relids but
>> PlaceHolderInfo refers to the top parent's relids. Hence postgres_fdw
>> tries to push down a child-join with PlaceHolderVars in it and fails
>> with error "unsupported expression type for deparse: 198". 198 being
>> T_PlaceHolderVar.
>>
>> The fix is to use joinrel->top_parent_relids for a child-join.
>> Attached patch for the same.
>
> Committed, but I changed the formatting, because as you had it,
> pgindent would have mangled it. While I was at it, I tweaked the
> wording of the comment a bit.
Thanks.
--
Best Wishes,
Ashutosh Bapat
EnterpriseDB Corporation
The Postgres Database Company