Fix erroneous range-union logic for varlena types in contrib/btree_gist.

gbt_var_bin_union() failed to do the right thing when the existing range
needed to be widened at both ends rather than just one end.  This could
result in an invalid index in which keys that are present would not be
found by searches, because the searches would not think they need to
descend to the relevant leaf pages.  This error affected all the varlena
datatypes supported by btree_gist (text, bytea, bit, numeric).

Per investigation of a trouble report from Tomas Vondra.  (There is also
an issue in gbt_var_penalty(), but that should only result in inefficiency
not wrong answers.  I'm committing this separately so that we have a git
state in which it can be tested that bad penalty results don't produce
invalid indexes.)  Back-patch to all supported branches.

diff --git a/contrib/btree_gist/btree_utils_var.c b/contrib/btree_gist/btree_utils_var.c
index 57d12e4cda22ff0aa5c5ce4ff140f31dea5fba20..7e6a3c3508afbc4ef8b4651fd058af08e31fedc4 100644 (file)
--- a/contrib/btree_gist/btree_utils_var.c
+++ b/contrib/btree_gist/btree_utils_var.c
@@ -233,14 +233,13 @@ gbt_var_node_truncate(const GBT_VARKEY *node, int32 cpf_length, const gbtree_vin
 void
 gbt_var_bin_union(Datum *u, GBT_VARKEY *e, const gbtree_vinfo *tinfo)
 {
-
-   GBT_VARKEY *nk = NULL;
-   GBT_VARKEY *tmp = NULL;
-   GBT_VARKEY_R nr;
    GBT_VARKEY_R eo = gbt_var_key_readable(e);
+   GBT_VARKEY_R nr;
 
    if (eo.lower == eo.upper)   /* leaf */
    {
+       GBT_VARKEY *tmp;
+
        tmp = gbt_var_leaf2node(e, tinfo);
        if (tmp != e)
            eo = gbt_var_key_readable(tmp);
@@ -248,25 +247,26 @@ gbt_var_bin_union(Datum *u, GBT_VARKEY *e, const gbtree_vinfo *tinfo)
 
    if (DatumGetPointer(*u))
    {
-
        GBT_VARKEY_R ro = gbt_var_key_readable((GBT_VARKEY *) DatumGetPointer(*u));
+       bool        update = false;
+
+       nr.lower = ro.lower;
+       nr.upper = ro.upper;
 
        if ((*tinfo->f_cmp) ((bytea *) ro.lower, (bytea *) eo.lower) > 0)
        {
            nr.lower = eo.lower;
-           nr.upper = ro.upper;
-           nk = gbt_var_key_copy(&nr, TRUE);
+           update = true;
        }
 
        if ((*tinfo->f_cmp) ((bytea *) ro.upper, (bytea *) eo.upper) < 0)
        {
            nr.upper = eo.upper;
-           nr.lower = ro.lower;
-           nk = gbt_var_key_copy(&nr, TRUE);
+           update = true;
        }
 
-       if (nk)
-           *u = PointerGetDatum(nk);
+       if (update)
+           *u = PointerGetDatum(gbt_var_key_copy(&nr, TRUE));
    }
    else
    {