Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakan...@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> TRAP: FailedAssertion("!(estate->eval_tuptable == ((void *)0))", File: 
> "pl_exec.c", Line: 4264)

> This happens when both the array subscript and the expression been 
> assigned are "non-simple". The purpose of the funny-looking COALESCE 
> expressions in the above example is to force them to be non-simple.

Ugh.  I'm amazed we didn't find this long ago.

> The problem is that exec_assign_value() is passed a value that came from 
> the current 'estate', but when exec_assign_value() evaluates the array 
> subscript, we don't expect there to already be an open result set in 
> 'estate'.

> A simple fix would be to make a copy of the value being assigned in 
> exec_assign_expr and calling exec_eval_cleanup() before the call to 
> exec_assign_value(). But I wonder if the performance impact would be too 
> high - one extra copy isn't that expensive, but it would affect every 
> single assignment of pass-by-reference variables.

Yeah, I don't like that either.  What we need to do instead is fix
exec_assign_value so that it can cope with the case of the caller having
an open expression evaluation.  We can easily have it save/restore
eval_tuptable.  Not resetting eval_econtext is a bit harder, but maybe
we could have a use-count variable ... or even easier, just decree that
the caller has to do exec_eval_cleanup after calling exec_assign_value,
whether or not it had an open expression eval.

                        regards, tom lane

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