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Tom Lane authored
This case doesn't normally happen, because the planner usually clamps all row estimates to at least one row; but I found that it can arise when dealing with relations excluded by constraints. Without a defense, estimate_num_groups() can return zero, which leads to divisions by zero inside the planner as well as assertion failures in the executor. An alternative fix would be to change set_dummy_rel_pathlist() to make the size estimate for a dummy relation 1 row instead of 0, but that seemed pretty ugly; and probably someday we'll want to drop the convention that the minimum rowcount estimate is 1 row. Back-patch to 8.4, as the problem can be demonstrated that far back.
Tom Lane authoredThis case doesn't normally happen, because the planner usually clamps all row estimates to at least one row; but I found that it can arise when dealing with relations excluded by constraints. Without a defense, estimate_num_groups() can return zero, which leads to divisions by zero inside the planner as well as assertion failures in the executor. An alternative fix would be to change set_dummy_rel_pathlist() to make the size estimate for a dummy relation 1 row instead of 0, but that seemed pretty ugly; and probably someday we'll want to drop the convention that the minimum rowcount estimate is 1 row. Back-patch to 8.4, as the problem can be demonstrated that far back.