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postgres_fdw's postgresGetForeignPlan() assumes without checking that the outer_plan it's given for a join relation must have a NestLoop, MergeJoin, or HashJoin node at the top. That's been wrong at least since commit 4bbf6edfb (which could cause insertion of a Sort node on top) and it seems like a pretty unsafe thing to Just Assume even without that. Through blind good fortune, this doesn't seem to have any worse consequences today than strange EXPLAIN output, but it's clearly trouble waiting to happen. To fix, test the node type explicitly before touching Join-specific fields, and avoid jamming the new tlist into a node type that can't do projection. Export a new support function from createplan.c to avoid building low-level knowledge about the latter into FDWs. Back-patch to 9.6 where the faulty coding was added. Note that the associated regression test cases don't show any changes before v11, apparently because the tests back-patched with 4bbf6edfb don't actually exercise the problem case before then (there's no top-level Sort in those plans). Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/8946.1544644803@sss.pgh.pa.us
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