pgsql: Fix optimization hazard in gram.y's makeOrderedSetArgs(), redux.

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: pgsql-committers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: pgsql: Fix optimization hazard in gram.y's makeOrderedSetArgs(), redux.
Date: 2020-10-07 22:43:22
Message-ID: E1kQI9a-0003zb-N3@gemulon.postgresql.org
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Fix optimization hazard in gram.y's makeOrderedSetArgs(), redux.

It appears that commit cf63c641c, which intended to prevent
misoptimization of the result-building step in makeOrderedSetArgs,
didn't go far enough: buildfarm member hornet's version of xlc
is now optimizing back to the old, broken behavior in which
list_length(directargs) is fetched only after list_concat() has
changed that value. I'm not entirely convinced whether that's
an undeniable compiler bug or whether it can be justified by a
sufficiently aggressive interpretation of C sequence points.
So let's just change the code to make it harder to misinterpret.

Back-patch to all supported versions, just in case.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1830491.1601944935@sss.pgh.pa.us

Branch
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REL9_6_STABLE

Details
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/eb48619d01d77d8273f4effa64f7ad544db8bb35

Modified Files
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src/backend/parser/gram.y | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

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