On Wed, 12 Jul 2023 at 08:46, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > A low-cost fix perhaps could be to unlink the lower rel's whole > path list (set input_rel->pathlist = NIL, also zero the related > fields such as cheapest_path) once we've finished selecting the > paths we want for the upper rel. That's not great for debuggability > either, but maybe it's the most appropriate compromise.
I've not taken the time to fully understand this, but from reading the thread, I'm not immediately understanding why we can't just shallow copy the Path from the other RelOptInfo and replace the parent before using it in the upper RelOptInfo. Can you explain? David
