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When short-circuiting WindowAgg node evaluation on the top-level WindowAgg node using quals on monotonic window functions, because the WindowAgg run condition can mean there's no need to evaluate subsequent window function results in the same partition once the run condition becomes false, it was possible that the executor would use stale results from the previous invocation of the window function in some cases. A fix for this was partially done by a5832722, but that commit only fixed the issue for non-top-level WindowAgg nodes. I mistakenly thought that the top-level WindowAgg didn't have this issue, but Jayesh's example case clearly shows that's incorrect. At the time, I also thought that this only affected 32-bit systems as all window functions which then supported run conditions returned BIGINT, however, that's wrong as ExecProject is still called and that could cause evaluation of any other window function belonging to the same WindowAgg node, one of which may return a byref type. The only queries affected by this are WindowAggs with a "Run Condition" which contains at least one window function with a byref result type, such as lead() or lag() on a byref column. The window clause must also contain a PARTITION BY clause (without a PARTITION BY, execution of the WindowAgg stops immediately when the run condition becomes false and there's no risk of using the stale results). Reported-by: Jayesh Dehankar Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/193261e2c4d.3dd3cd7c1842.871636075166132237@zohocorp.com Backpatch-through: 15, where WindowAgg run conditions were added
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