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Commit 43f0c208 authored by Tom Lane's avatar Tom Lane
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Fix overoptimistic assumptions in column width estimation for subqueries.

set_append_rel_pathlist supposed that, while computing per-column width
estimates for the appendrel, it could ignore child rels for which the
translated reltargetlist entry wasn't a Var.  This gave rise to completely
silly estimates in some common cases, such as constant outputs from some or
all of the arms of a UNION ALL.  Instead, fall back on get_typavgwidth to
estimate from the value's datatype; which might be a poor estimate but at
least it's not completely wacko.

That problem was exposed by an Assert in set_subquery_size_estimates, which
unfortunately was still overoptimistic even with that fix, since we don't
compute attr_widths estimates for appendrels that are entirely excluded by
constraints.  So remove the Assert; we'll just fall back on get_typavgwidth
in such cases.

Also, since set_subquery_size_estimates calls set_baserel_size_estimates
which calls set_rel_width, there's no need for set_subquery_size_estimates
to call get_typavgwidth; set_rel_width will handle it for us if we just
leave the estimate set to zero.  Remove the unnecessary code.

Per report from Erik Rijkers and subsequent investigation.
parent 1af55e27
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