ERROR: could not devise a query plan for the given query (UNIONS and LATERAL)

From: Elvis Pranskevichus <elprans(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: ERROR: could not devise a query plan for the given query (UNIONS and LATERAL)
Date: 2018-01-23 18:10:59
Message-ID: 5981018.zdth1YWmNy@hammer.magicstack.net
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Hi,

The following (admittedly bizzare) query causes the error in the subject
on all recent versions of Postgres:

SELECT
"q2"."v"
FROM
LATERAL
(SELECT
"q11"."v"
FROM
(
(SELECT 2::bigint AS "v") UNION ALL
(SELECT 3::bigint AS "v")
) AS "q11"
) AS "q1"
CROSS JOIN LATERAL
(
(SELECT
"q3"."v"
FROM
(
(SELECT 4::bigint AS "v") UNION ALL
(SELECT 5::bigint AS "v")
) AS "q3"
)
UNION ALL
(SELECT "q1"."v")
) AS "q2"
ORDER BY
"q2"."v";

Interestingly, removing UNION from either "q3" or "q11", as well as
removing the ::bigint casts makes it work.

Elvis

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