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If an ORDER BY item in SELECT is a bare identifier, the parser first seeks it as an output column name of the SELECT (for SQL92 compatibility). However, ruleutils.c is expecting the SQL99 interpretation where such a name is an input column name. So it's possible to produce an incorrect display of a view in the (admittedly pretty ill-advised) case where some other column is renamed in the SELECT output list to match an ORDER BY column. This can be fixed by table-qualifying such names in the dumped view text. To avoid cluttering less-ill-advised queries, we'd like to do so only when there's an actual name conflict. That requires passing the current get_query_def call's resultDesc parameter down to get_variable, so that it can determine what the output column names are. In hopes of reducing rather than increasing notational clutter in ruleutils.c, I moved that value into the deparse_context struct and removed it from the parameter lists of get_query_def's other subroutines. I made a few other cosmetic changes while at it: * Likewise move the colNamesVisible parameter into deparse_context. * Rename deparse_context's windowTList field to targetList, since it's no longer used only in connection with WINDOW clauses. * Replace the special_exprkind field with a bool inGroupBy, since that was all it was being used for, and the apparent flexibility of storing a ParseExprKind proved to be illusory. (We need a separate varInOrderBy field to make this patch work.) * Remove useless save/restore logic in get_select_query_def. In principle, this bug is quite old. However, it seems unreachable before 1b4d280ea, because before that the presence of "new" and "old" entries in a view's rangetable caused us to always table-qualify every Var reference in dumped views. Hence, back-patch to v16 where that came in. Per bug #18589 from Quynh Tran. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18589-70091cb81db1a3f1@postgresql.org
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