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* pgsql: Fix qual pushdown past grouping through simple CASE
@ 2026-09-02 06:35  Richard Guo <rguo@postgresql.org>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread

From: Richard Guo @ 2026-09-02 06:35 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: pgsql-committers@lists.postgresql.org

Fix qual pushdown past grouping through simple CASE

Commit 44fb59fc6 taught the grouping-conflict walker to treat the arg
of a simple CASE as a direct operand of each WHEN comparison, but it
only checked the collation, on the assumption that the WHEN operator
is always the type-default "=" and thus matches the grouping eqop.
That assumption fails once the arg is relabeled to another type: the
WHEN then compares under that type's "=", which need not agree with
the grouping equality.  For instance, with a DISTINCT over a citext
column, a qual such as "CASE t::text WHEN 'A' THEN ..." was pushed
below the Unique, although the equivalent "t::text = 'A'" is correctly
kept above it.

Instead of special-casing the arg, have the walker bind a Var arg
while walking the WHEN conditions and resolve each CaseTestExpr to it,
so that the arg is checked exactly as each WHEN uses it: with the
opfamily and collation checks of a direct operand when the WHEN is a
comparison, and as a non-operand reference otherwise.  A non-Var arg
is walked once as a non-operand, as before.  The CaseTestExpr in an
ArrayCoerceExpr's elemexpr and a JsonConstructorExpr's coercion stand
for something else and are left alone.

Reported-by: Tender Wang <tndrwang@gmail.com>
Author: Richard Guo <guofenglinux@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Tender Wang <tndrwang@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Ewan Young <kdbase.hack@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAHewXNkvGTOgijRLjmudpg=wz0d-J8ChY2o7ksh3Be+Q_Bxwog@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 18

Branch
------
master

Details
-------
https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/264ddc9a678c41fca3435f26d7c581fd2b034cf8

Modified Files
--------------
src/backend/optimizer/util/clauses.c           | 127 +++++++++++++++++--------
src/test/regress/expected/collate.icu.utf8.out |  35 +++++++
src/test/regress/expected/subselect.out        |  27 ++++++
src/test/regress/sql/collate.icu.utf8.sql      |  12 +++
src/test/regress/sql/subselect.sql             |  11 +++
5 files changed, 171 insertions(+), 41 deletions(-)



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* pgsql: Fix qual pushdown past grouping through simple CASE
@ 2026-09-02 06:35  Richard Guo <rguo@postgresql.org>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread

From: Richard Guo @ 2026-09-02 06:35 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: pgsql-committers@lists.postgresql.org

Fix qual pushdown past grouping through simple CASE

Commit 44fb59fc6 taught the grouping-conflict walker to treat the arg
of a simple CASE as a direct operand of each WHEN comparison, but it
only checked the collation, on the assumption that the WHEN operator
is always the type-default "=" and thus matches the grouping eqop.
That assumption fails once the arg is relabeled to another type: the
WHEN then compares under that type's "=", which need not agree with
the grouping equality.  For instance, with a DISTINCT over a citext
column, a qual such as "CASE t::text WHEN 'A' THEN ..." was pushed
below the Unique, although the equivalent "t::text = 'A'" is correctly
kept above it.

Instead of special-casing the arg, have the walker bind a Var arg
while walking the WHEN conditions and resolve each CaseTestExpr to it,
so that the arg is checked exactly as each WHEN uses it: with the
opfamily and collation checks of a direct operand when the WHEN is a
comparison, and as a non-operand reference otherwise.  A non-Var arg
is walked once as a non-operand, as before.  The CaseTestExpr in an
ArrayCoerceExpr's elemexpr and a JsonConstructorExpr's coercion stand
for something else and are left alone.

Reported-by: Tender Wang <tndrwang@gmail.com>
Author: Richard Guo <guofenglinux@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Tender Wang <tndrwang@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Ewan Young <kdbase.hack@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAHewXNkvGTOgijRLjmudpg=wz0d-J8ChY2o7ksh3Be+Q_Bxwog@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 18

Branch
------
REL_19_STABLE

Details
-------
https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/a3bc7f2c0de8ad5c6ae746cb6c1c5c187a60c124

Modified Files
--------------
src/backend/optimizer/util/clauses.c           | 127 +++++++++++++++++--------
src/test/regress/expected/collate.icu.utf8.out |  35 +++++++
src/test/regress/expected/subselect.out        |  27 ++++++
src/test/regress/sql/collate.icu.utf8.sql      |  12 +++
src/test/regress/sql/subselect.sql             |  11 +++
5 files changed, 171 insertions(+), 41 deletions(-)



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* pgsql: Fix qual pushdown past grouping through simple CASE
@ 2026-09-02 06:35  Richard Guo <rguo@postgresql.org>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread

From: Richard Guo @ 2026-09-02 06:35 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: pgsql-committers@lists.postgresql.org

Fix qual pushdown past grouping through simple CASE

Commit 44fb59fc6 taught the grouping-conflict walker to treat the arg
of a simple CASE as a direct operand of each WHEN comparison, but it
only checked the collation, on the assumption that the WHEN operator
is always the type-default "=" and thus matches the grouping eqop.
That assumption fails once the arg is relabeled to another type: the
WHEN then compares under that type's "=", which need not agree with
the grouping equality.  For instance, with a DISTINCT over a citext
column, a qual such as "CASE t::text WHEN 'A' THEN ..." was pushed
below the Unique, although the equivalent "t::text = 'A'" is correctly
kept above it.

Instead of special-casing the arg, have the walker bind a Var arg
while walking the WHEN conditions and resolve each CaseTestExpr to it,
so that the arg is checked exactly as each WHEN uses it: with the
opfamily and collation checks of a direct operand when the WHEN is a
comparison, and as a non-operand reference otherwise.  A non-Var arg
is walked once as a non-operand, as before.  The CaseTestExpr in an
ArrayCoerceExpr's elemexpr and a JsonConstructorExpr's coercion stand
for something else and are left alone.

Reported-by: Tender Wang <tndrwang@gmail.com>
Author: Richard Guo <guofenglinux@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Tender Wang <tndrwang@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Ewan Young <kdbase.hack@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAHewXNkvGTOgijRLjmudpg=wz0d-J8ChY2o7ksh3Be+Q_Bxwog@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 18

Branch
------
REL_18_STABLE

Details
-------
https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/dd7c135bb97ec7a5dad09fa9e1e2dd9c044ceee8

Modified Files
--------------
src/backend/optimizer/util/clauses.c           | 127 +++++++++++++++++--------
src/test/regress/expected/collate.icu.utf8.out |  35 +++++++
src/test/regress/expected/subselect.out        |  27 ++++++
src/test/regress/sql/collate.icu.utf8.sql      |  12 +++
src/test/regress/sql/subselect.sql             |  11 +++
5 files changed, 171 insertions(+), 41 deletions(-)



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