pgsql: Don't shut down Gather[Merge] early under Limit.

From: Amit Kapila <akapila(at)postgresql(dot)org>
To: pgsql-committers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: pgsql: Don't shut down Gather[Merge] early under Limit.
Date: 2019-11-26 04:25:48
Message-ID: E1iZSQ8-0008K5-NJ@gemulon.postgresql.org
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Don't shut down Gather[Merge] early under Limit.

Revert part of commit 19df1702f5.

Early shutdown was added by that commit so that we could collect
statistics from workers, but unfortunately, it interacted badly with
rescans. The problem is that we ended up destroying the parallel context
which is required for rescans. This leads to rescans of a Limit node over
a Gather node to produce unpredictable results as it tries to access
destroyed parallel context. By reverting the early shutdown code, we
might lose statistics in some cases of Limit over Gather [Merge], but that
will require further study to fix.

Reported-by: Jerry Sievers
Diagnosed-by: Thomas Munro
Author: Amit Kapila, testcase by Vignesh C
Backpatch-through: 9.6
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/87ims2amh6.fsf@jsievers.enova.com

Branch
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REL_12_STABLE

Details
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/1cc3a90c7551cf1f33611152eba2bca56e0b721e

Modified Files
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src/backend/executor/nodeLimit.c | 14 ++++-----
src/test/regress/expected/select_parallel.out | 41 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
src/test/regress/sql/select_parallel.sql | 22 +++++++++++++-
3 files changed, 67 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

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