Remove inadequate assertion check in CTE inlining.
authorTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Thu, 21 Apr 2022 21:58:52 +0000 (17:58 -0400)
committerTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Thu, 21 Apr 2022 21:58:52 +0000 (17:58 -0400)
commit92e7a537520927107742af654619e55f34072942
treebf56aee0d30e9a79a2e49f7e764216fd304bdb66
parent914611ea738a3601717990faff0f5d71a0f14a3d
Remove inadequate assertion check in CTE inlining.

inline_cte() expected to find exactly as many references to the
target CTE as its cterefcount indicates.  While that should be
accurate for the tree as emitted by the parser, there are some
optimizations that occur upstream of here that could falsify it,
notably removal of unused subquery output expressions.

Trying to make the accounting 100% accurate seems expensive and
doomed to future breakage.  It's not really worth it, because
all this code is protecting is downstream assumptions that every
referenced CTE has a plan.  Let's convert those assertions to
regular test-and-elog just in case there's some actual problem,
and then drop the failing assertion.

Per report from Tomas Vondra (thanks also to Richard Guo for
analysis).  Back-patch to v12 where the faulty code came in.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/29196a1e-ed47-c7ca-9be2-b1c636816183@enterprisedb.com
src/backend/optimizer/path/allpaths.c
src/backend/optimizer/plan/createplan.c
src/backend/optimizer/plan/subselect.c
src/include/nodes/pathnodes.h
src/test/regress/expected/with.out
src/test/regress/sql/with.sql