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1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/src/backend/optimizer/prep/prepunion.c b/src/backend/optimizer/prep/prepunion.c
index 7c27dc24e21..eab44da65b8 100644
--- a/src/backend/optimizer/prep/prepunion.c
+++ b/src/backend/optimizer/prep/prepunion.c
@@ -639,14 +639,17 @@ build_setop_child_paths(PlannerInfo *root, RelOptInfo *rel,
* otherwise do statistical estimation.
*
* XXX you don't really want to know about this: we do the estimation
- * using the subquery's original targetlist expressions, not the
+ * using the subroot->parse's original targetlist expressions, not the
* subroot->processed_tlist which might seem more appropriate. The reason
* is that if the subquery is itself a setop, it may return a
* processed_tlist containing "varno 0" Vars generated by
* generate_append_tlist, and those would confuse estimate_num_groups
* mightily. We ought to get rid of the "varno 0" hack, but that requires
* a redesign of the parsetree representation of setops, so that there can
- * be an RTE corresponding to each setop's output.
+ * be an RTE corresponding to each setop's output. Note, we use this not
+ * subquery's targetlist but subroot->parse's targetlist, because it was
+ * revised by self-join removal. subquery's targetlist might contain the
+ * references to the removed relids.
*/
if (pNumGroups)
{
@@ -659,7 +662,7 @@ build_setop_child_paths(PlannerInfo *root, RelOptInfo *rel,
*pNumGroups = rel->cheapest_total_path->rows;
else
*pNumGroups = estimate_num_groups(subroot,
- get_tlist_exprs(subquery->targetList, false),
+ get_tlist_exprs(subroot->parse->targetList, false),
rel->cheapest_total_path->rows,
NULL,
NULL);