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In the corner case where a function returning RECORD has been simplified to a RECORD constant or an inlined ROW() expression, ExecInitFunctionScan failed to cross-check the function's result rowtype against the coldeflist provided by the calling query. That happened because get_expr_result_type is able to extract a tupdesc from such expressions, which led ExecInitFunctionScan to ignore the coldeflist. (Instead, it used the extracted tupdesc to check the function's output, which of course always succeeds.) I have not been able to demonstrate any really serious consequences from this, because if some column of the result is of the wrong type and is directly referenced by a Var of the calling query, CheckVarSlotCompatibility will catch it. However, we definitely do fail to report the case where the function returns more columns than the coldeflist expects, and in the converse case where it returns fewer columns, we get an assert failure (but, seemingly, no worse results in non-assert builds). To fix, always build the expected tupdesc from the coldeflist if there is one, and consult get_expr_result_type only when there isn't one. Also remove the failing Assert, even though it is no longer reached after this fix. It doesn't seem to be adding anything useful, since later checking will deal with cases with the wrong number of columns. The only other place I could find that is doing something similar is inline_set_returning_function. There's no live bug there because we cannot be looking at a Const or RowExpr, but for consistency change that code to agree with ExecInitFunctionScan. Per report from PetSerAl. After some debate I've concluded that this should be back-patched. There is a small risk that somebody has been relying on such a case not throwing an error, but I judge this outweighed by the risk that I've missed some way in which the failure to cross-check has worse consequences than sketched above. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKygsHSerA1eXsJHR9wft3Gn3wfHQ5RfP8XHBzF70_qcrrRvEg@mail.gmail.com
PostgreSQL Database Management System
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