Remove inadequate assertion check in CTE inlining.

inline_cte() expected to find exactly as many references to the
target CTE as its cterefcount indicates.  While that should be
accurate for the tree as emitted by the parser, there are some
optimizations that occur upstream of here that could falsify it,
notably removal of unused subquery output expressions.

Trying to make the accounting 100% accurate seems expensive and
doomed to future breakage.  It's not really worth it, because
all this code is protecting is downstream assumptions that every
referenced CTE has a plan.  Let's convert those assertions to
regular test-and-elog just in case there's some actual problem,
and then drop the failing assertion.

Per report from Tomas Vondra (thanks also to Richard Guo for
analysis).  Back-patch to v12 where the faulty code came in.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/29196a1e-ed47-c7ca-9be2-b1c636816183@enterprisedb.com

2 files changed, 95 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/with.out b/src/test/regress/expected/with.out
index 04a942993d6..63bbef0677e 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/with.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/with.out
@@ -1766,6 +1766,70 @@ SELECT * FROM bug6051_3;
 ---
 (0 rows)
 
+-- check case where CTE reference is removed due to optimization
+EXPLAIN (VERBOSE, COSTS OFF)
+SELECT q1 FROM
+(
+  WITH t_cte AS (SELECT * FROM int8_tbl t)
+  SELECT q1, (SELECT q2 FROM t_cte WHERE t_cte.q1 = i8.q1) AS t_sub
+  FROM int8_tbl i8
+) ss;
+              QUERY PLAN              
+--------------------------------------
+ Subquery Scan on ss
+   Output: ss.q1
+   ->  Seq Scan on public.int8_tbl i8
+         Output: i8.q1, NULL::bigint
+(4 rows)
+
+SELECT q1 FROM
+(
+  WITH t_cte AS (SELECT * FROM int8_tbl t)
+  SELECT q1, (SELECT q2 FROM t_cte WHERE t_cte.q1 = i8.q1) AS t_sub
+  FROM int8_tbl i8
+) ss;
+        q1        
+------------------
+              123
+              123
+ 4567890123456789
+ 4567890123456789
+ 4567890123456789
+(5 rows)
+
+EXPLAIN (VERBOSE, COSTS OFF)
+SELECT q1 FROM
+(
+  WITH t_cte AS MATERIALIZED (SELECT * FROM int8_tbl t)
+  SELECT q1, (SELECT q2 FROM t_cte WHERE t_cte.q1 = i8.q1) AS t_sub
+  FROM int8_tbl i8
+) ss;
+                 QUERY PLAN                  
+---------------------------------------------
+ Subquery Scan on ss
+   Output: ss.q1
+   ->  Seq Scan on public.int8_tbl i8
+         Output: i8.q1, NULL::bigint
+         CTE t_cte
+           ->  Seq Scan on public.int8_tbl t
+                 Output: t.q1, t.q2
+(7 rows)
+
+SELECT q1 FROM
+(
+  WITH t_cte AS MATERIALIZED (SELECT * FROM int8_tbl t)
+  SELECT q1, (SELECT q2 FROM t_cte WHERE t_cte.q1 = i8.q1) AS t_sub
+  FROM int8_tbl i8
+) ss;
+        q1        
+------------------
+              123
+              123
+ 4567890123456789
+ 4567890123456789
+ 4567890123456789
+(5 rows)
+
 -- a truly recursive CTE in the same list
 WITH RECURSIVE t(a) AS (
 	SELECT 0
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/with.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/with.sql
index 75b310cac5d..d2c4c174a45 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/with.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/with.sql
@@ -842,6 +842,37 @@ COMMIT;
 
 SELECT * FROM bug6051_3;
 
+-- check case where CTE reference is removed due to optimization
+EXPLAIN (VERBOSE, COSTS OFF)
+SELECT q1 FROM
+(
+  WITH t_cte AS (SELECT * FROM int8_tbl t)
+  SELECT q1, (SELECT q2 FROM t_cte WHERE t_cte.q1 = i8.q1) AS t_sub
+  FROM int8_tbl i8
+) ss;
+
+SELECT q1 FROM
+(
+  WITH t_cte AS (SELECT * FROM int8_tbl t)
+  SELECT q1, (SELECT q2 FROM t_cte WHERE t_cte.q1 = i8.q1) AS t_sub
+  FROM int8_tbl i8
+) ss;
+
+EXPLAIN (VERBOSE, COSTS OFF)
+SELECT q1 FROM
+(
+  WITH t_cte AS MATERIALIZED (SELECT * FROM int8_tbl t)
+  SELECT q1, (SELECT q2 FROM t_cte WHERE t_cte.q1 = i8.q1) AS t_sub
+  FROM int8_tbl i8
+) ss;
+
+SELECT q1 FROM
+(
+  WITH t_cte AS MATERIALIZED (SELECT * FROM int8_tbl t)
+  SELECT q1, (SELECT q2 FROM t_cte WHERE t_cte.q1 = i8.q1) AS t_sub
+  FROM int8_tbl i8
+) ss;
+
 -- a truly recursive CTE in the same list
 WITH RECURSIVE t(a) AS (
 	SELECT 0