As discovered by Andreas Seltenreich via sqlsmith, it's possible for a
remote join to need to generate a target list which contains a
PlaceHolderVar which would need to be evaluated on the remote server.
This happens when we try to push down a join tree which contains outer
joins and the nullable side of the join contains a subquery which
evauates some expression which can go to NULL above the level of the
join. Since the deparsing logic can't build a remote query that
involves subqueries, it fails while trying to produce an SQL query
that can be sent to the remote side. Detect such cases and don't try
to push down the join at all.
It's actually fine to push down the join if the PlaceHolderVar needs
to be evaluated at the current join level. This patch makes a small
change to build_tlist_to_deparse so that this case will work.
Amit Langote, Ashutosh Bapat, and me.
Remote SQL: SELECT "C 1" FROM "S 1"."T 1" WHERE (("C 1" >= 10)) AND (("C 1" <= 15)) ORDER BY "C 1" ASC NULLS LAST
-> Materialize
Output: (13)
-> Foreign Scan on public.ft1
Output: 13
Remote SQL: SELECT NULL FROM "S 1"."T 1" WHERE (("C 1" = 13))
(11 rows)
SELECT q.a, ft2.c1 FROM (SELECT 13 FROM ft1 WHERE c1 = 13) q(a) RIGHT JOIN ft2 ON (q.a = ft2.c1) WHERE ft2.c1 BETWEEN 10 AND 15;
a | c1
----+----
| 10
| 11
| 12
13 | 13
| 14
| 15
(6 rows)
-- ok to push {ft1, ft2} but not {ft1, ft2, ft4}
EXPLAIN (COSTS false, VERBOSE)
SELECT ft4.c1, q.* FROM ft4 LEFT JOIN (SELECT 13, ft1.c1, ft2.c1 FROM ft1 RIGHT JOIN ft2 ON (ft1.c1 = ft2.c1) WHERE ft1.c1 = 12) q(a, b, c) ON (ft4.c1 = q.b) WHERE ft4.c1 BETWEEN 10 AND 15;
Remote SQL: SELECT c1 FROM "S 1"."T 3" WHERE ((c1 >= 10)) AND ((c1 <= 15))
-> Materialize
Output: ft1.c1, ft2.c1, (13)
-> Foreign Scan
Output: ft1.c1, ft2.c1, 13
Relations: (public.ft1) INNER JOIN (public.ft2)
Remote SQL: SELECT r4."C 1", r5."C 1" FROM ("S 1"."T 1" r4 INNER JOIN "S 1"."T 1" r5 ON (((r5."C 1" = 12)) AND ((r4."C 1" = 12)))) ORDER BY r4."C 1" ASC NULLS LAST
(12 rows)
SELECT ft4.c1, q.* FROM ft4 LEFT JOIN (SELECT 13, ft1.c1, ft2.c1 FROM ft1 RIGHT JOIN ft2 ON (ft1.c1 = ft2.c1) WHERE ft1.c1 = 12) q(a, b, c) ON (ft4.c1 = q.b) WHERE ft4.c1 BETWEEN 10 AND 15;
c1 | a | b | c
----+----+----+----
10 | | |
12 | 13 | 12 | 12
14 | | |
(3 rows)
-- recreate the dropped user mapping for further tests
CREATE USER MAPPING FOR CURRENT_USER SERVER loopback;