Fix possible crash with nested SubLinks.
An expression such as WHERE (... x IN (SELECT ...) ...) IN (SELECT ...)
could produce an invalid plan that results in a crash at execution time,
if the planner attempts to flatten the outer IN into a semi-join.
This happens because convert_testexpr() was not expecting any nested
SubLinks and would wrongly replace any PARAM_SUBLINK Params belonging
to the inner SubLink. (I think the comment denying that this case could
happen was wrong when written; it's certainly been wrong for quite a long
time, since very early versions of the semijoin flattening logic.)
Per report from Teodor Sigaev. Back-patch to all supported branches.
Branch
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master
Details
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http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/9ec6199d18d6235cc4b4d5e4e8986e73b55b14d8
Modified Files
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src/backend/optimizer/plan/subselect.c | 27 ++++++++++++++++++++++-----
src/test/regress/expected/subselect.out | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
src/test/regress/sql/subselect.sql | 11 +++++++++++
3 files changed, 62 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)