Fix wrong costing of Sort under Gather Merge.

There's no mechanism for such a sort to become a top-N sort, so we
should pass -1 rather than limit_tuples to cost_sort().

Rushabh Lathia, per a report from Mithun Cy

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAGPqQf1akRcSgC9=6iwx=sEPap9UvPpHJLzg8_N+OuHdb6fL+g@mail.gmail.com

diff --git a/src/backend/optimizer/plan/planner.c b/src/backend/optimizer/plan/planner.c
index cbdea1f537850a875d20d6f8a42170dc2734b456..68d74cb4324ca3e172fce96de92034c2ef2e2bf7 100644 (file)
--- a/src/backend/optimizer/plan/planner.c
+++ b/src/backend/optimizer/plan/planner.c
@@ -4416,7 +4416,7 @@ create_ordered_paths(PlannerInfo *root,
                                             ordered_rel,
                                             cheapest_partial_path,
                                             root->sort_pathkeys,
-                                            limit_tuples);
+                                            -1.0);
 
            total_groups = cheapest_partial_path->rows *
                cheapest_partial_path->parallel_workers;