Fix partial aggregation for the case of a degenerate GROUP BY clause.

tglsfdc · tglsfdc · commit e1b449bea909 · 2016-11-10T11:31:56.000-05:00
The plan generated for sorted partial aggregation with "GROUP BY constant"
included a Sort node with no sort keys, which the executor does not like.

Per report from Steve Randall.  I'd add a regression test case if I could
think of a compact one, but it doesn't seem worth expending lots of cycles
on.

Report: &lt;CABVd52UAdGXpg_rCk46egpNKYdXOzCjuJ1zG26E2xBe_8bj+Fg@mail.gmail.com&gt;
diff --git a/src/backend/optimizer/plan/planner.c b/src/backend/optimizer/plan/planner.c
@@ -3741,11 +3741,11 @@ create_grouping_paths(PlannerInfo *root,
 											   &total_groups);
 
 			/*
-			 * Gather is always unsorted, so we'll need to sort, unless
-			 * there's no GROUP BY clause, in which case there will only be a
-			 * single group.
+			 * Since Gather's output is always unsorted, we'll need to sort,
+			 * unless there's no GROUP BY clause or a degenerate (constant)
+			 * one, in which case there will only be a single group.
 			 */
-			if (parse->groupClause)
+			if (root->group_pathkeys)
 				path = (Path *) create_sort_path(root,
 												 grouped_rel,
 												 path,
