Jeff Janes <jeff.ja...@gmail.com> writes: > I have a DML statement which triggers the error: > ERROR: XX000: outer pathkeys do not match mergeclauses > LOCATION: create_mergejoin_plan, createplan.c:3722
Hmm. > Any tips on investigating this further in situ? Or is the best option just > to work harder on a minimal and disclosable test case? I think we need a test case --- not minimal necessarily, but something other people can reproduce. You might find that setting enable_hashjoin and/or enable_nestloop to false makes it easier to provoke the error, since evidently this requires that we (a) generate a faulty mergejoin Path and then (b) choose it as the cheapest one, since the error occurs while converting it to a Plan. BTW, if you're not doing this in a debug (--enable-cassert) build, it'd be useful to try it in one. I'm a little suspicious that the root cause might be a memory-stomp type of problem, ie somebody scribbling on a pathkey data structure without accounting for it being shared with another path. It's possible that cassert memory checking would help catch that. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers