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create_merge_append_plan failed to honor the CP_EXACT_TLIST flag: it would generate the expected targetlist but then it felt free to add resjunk sort targets to it. This demonstrably leads to assertion failures in v11 and HEAD, and it's probably just accidental that we don't see the same in older branches. I've not looked into whether there would be any real-world consequences in non-assert builds. In HEAD, create_append_plan has sprouted the same problem, so fix that too (although we do not have any test cases that seem able to reach that bug). This is an oversight in commit 3fc6e2d7f which invented the CP_EXACT_TLIST flag, so back-patch to 9.6 where that came in. convert_subquery_pathkeys would create pathkeys for subquery output values if they match any EquivalenceClass known in the outer query and are available in the subquery's syntactic targetlist. However, the second part of that condition is wrong, because such values might not appear in the subquery relation's reltarget list, which would mean that they couldn't be accessed above the level of the subquery scan. We must check that they appear in the reltarget list, instead. This can lead to dropping knowledge about the subquery's sort ordering, but I believe it's okay, because any sort key that the outer query actually has any interest in would appear in the reltarget list. This second issue is of very long standing, but right now there's no evidence that it causes observable problems before 9.6, so I refrained from back-patching further than that. We can revisit that choice if somebody finds a way to make it cause problems in older branches. (Developing useful test cases for these issues is really problematic; fixing convert_subquery_pathkeys removes the only known way to exhibit the create_merge_append_plan bug, and neither of the test cases added by this patch causes a problem in all branches, even when considering the issues separately.) The second issue explains bug #15795 from Suresh Kumar R ("could not find pathkey item to sort" with nested DISTINCT queries). I stumbled across the first issue while investigating that. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/15795-fadb56c8e44ee73c@postgresql.org
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