Fix oversight in original coding of inline_function(): since

check_sql_fn_retval allows binary-compatibility cases, the expression
extracted from an inline-able SQL function might have a type that is only
binary-compatible with the declared function result type.  To avoid possibly
changing the semantics of the expression, we should insert a RelabelType node
in such cases.  This has only been shown to have bad consequences in recent
8.1 and up releases, but I suspect there may be failure cases in the older
branches too, so patch it all the way back.  Per bug #3116 from Greg Mullane.

Along the way, fix an omission in eval_const_expressions_mutator: it failed
to copy the relabelformat field when processing a RelabelType.  No known
observable failures from this, but it definitely isn't intended behavior.

1 files changed, 19 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/src/backend/optimizer/util/clauses.c b/src/backend/optimizer/util/clauses.c
index 852b0f533e7..0f8231c4f91 100644
--- a/src/backend/optimizer/util/clauses.c
+++ b/src/backend/optimizer/util/clauses.c
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
  *
  *
  * IDENTIFICATION
- *	  $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/optimizer/util/clauses.c,v 1.236 2007/02/22 22:00:24 tgl Exp $
+ *	  $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/optimizer/util/clauses.c,v 1.237 2007/03/06 22:45:16 tgl Exp $
  *
  * HISTORY
  *	  AUTHOR			DATE			MAJOR EVENT
@@ -1976,6 +1976,7 @@ eval_const_expressions_mutator(Node *node,
 			newrelabel->arg = (Expr *) arg;
 			newrelabel->resulttype = relabel->resulttype;
 			newrelabel->resulttypmod = relabel->resulttypmod;
+			newrelabel->relabelformat = relabel->relabelformat;
 			return (Node *) newrelabel;
 		}
 	}
@@ -2929,7 +2930,8 @@ inline_function(Oid funcid, Oid result_type, List *args,
 	 * no rewriting was needed; that's probably not important, but let's be
 	 * careful.
 	 */
-	(void) check_sql_fn_retval(funcid, result_type, querytree_list, NULL);
+	if (check_sql_fn_retval(funcid, result_type, querytree_list, NULL))
+		goto fail;				/* reject whole-tuple-result cases */
 
 	/*
 	 * Additional validity checks on the expression.  It mustn't return a set,
@@ -3015,6 +3017,21 @@ inline_function(Oid funcid, Oid result_type, List *args,
 	MemoryContextDelete(mycxt);
 
 	/*
+	 * Since check_sql_fn_retval allows binary-compatibility cases, the
+	 * expression we now have might return some type that's only binary
+	 * compatible with the original expression result type.  To avoid
+	 * confusing matters, insert a RelabelType in such cases.
+	 */
+	if (exprType(newexpr) != funcform->prorettype)
+	{
+		Assert(IsBinaryCoercible(exprType(newexpr), funcform->prorettype));
+		newexpr = (Node *) makeRelabelType((Expr *) newexpr,
+										   funcform->prorettype,
+										   -1,
+										   COERCE_IMPLICIT_CAST);
+	}
+
+	/*
 	 * Recursively try to simplify the modified expression.  Here we must add
 	 * the current function to the context list of active functions.
 	 */