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Pushing an upper-level restriction clause into an unflattened subquery-in-FROM is okay when the subquery contains no SRFs in its targetlist, or when it does but the SRFs are unreferenced by the clause *and the clause is not volatile*. Otherwise, we're changing the number of times the clause is evaluated, which is bad for volatile quals, and possibly changing the result, since a volatile qual might succeed for some SRF output rows and not others despite not referencing any of the changing columns. (Indeed, if the clause is something like "random() > 0.5", the user is probably expecting exactly that behavior.) We had most of these restrictions down, but not the one about the upper clause not being volatile. Fix that, and add a regression test to illustrate the expected behavior. Although this is definitely a bug, it doesn't seem like back-patch material, since possibly some users don't realize that the broken behavior is broken and are relying on what happens now. Also, while the added test is quite cheap in the wake of commit a4c35ea1c, it would be much more expensive (or else messier) in older branches. Per report from Tom van Tilburg. Discussion: <CAP3PPDiucxYCNev52=YPVkrQAPVF1C5PFWnrQPT7iMzO1fiKFQ@mail.gmail.com>
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