Prevent join removal from removing the query's result relation.
This was not something that required consideration before MERGE
was invented; but MERGE builds a join tree that left-joins to the
result relation, meaning that remove_useless_joins will consider
removing it. That should generally be stopped by the query's use
of output variables from the result relation. However, if the
result relation is inherited (e.g. a partitioned table) then
we don't add any row identity variables to the query until
expand_inherited_rtentry, which happens after join removal.
This was exposed as of commit 3c569049b, which made it possible
to deduce that a partitioned table could contain at most one row
matching a join key, enabling removal of the not-yet-expanded
result relation. Ooops.
To fix, let's just teach join_is_removable that the query result
rel is never removable. It's a cheap enough test in any case,
and it'll save some cycles that we'd otherwise expend in proving
that it's not removable, even in the cases we got right.
Back-patch to v15 where MERGE was added. Although I think the
case cannot be reached in v15, this seems like cheap insurance.
Per investigation of a report from Alexander Lakhin.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/36bee393-b351-16ac-93b2-d46d83637e45@gmail.com
Branch
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REL_15_STABLE
Details
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/e6d8639cf25ccfffe12695768a4f7a60130c426f
Modified Files
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src/backend/optimizer/plan/analyzejoins.c | 8 ++++++++
src/test/regress/expected/merge.out | 32 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
src/test/regress/sql/merge.sql | 20 +++++++++++++++++++
3 files changed, 60 insertions(+)