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Tom Lane authored
In commit 9e3ad1aa I modified plpgsql to use exec_stmt_return's simple-variables fast path in more cases. However, I overlooked that there are really two different return conventions in use here, depending on whether estate->retistuple is true, and the existing fast-path code had only bothered to handle one of them. So trying to return a scalar in a function returning composite, or vice versa, could lead to unexpected error messages (typically "cache lookup failed for type 0") or to a null-pointer-dereference crash. In the DTYPE_VAR case, we can just throw error if retistuple is true, corresponding to what happens in the general-expression code path that was being used previously. (Perhaps someday both of these code paths should attempt a coercion, but today is not that day.) In the REC and ROW cases, just hand the problem to exec_eval_datum() when not retistuple. Also clean up the ROW coding slightly so it looks more like exec_eval_datum(). The previous commit also caused exec_stmt_return_next() to be used in more cases, but that code seems to be OK as-is. Per off-list report from Serge Rielau. This bug is new in 9.5 so no need to back-patch.
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