Fix planner to make a reasonable assumption about the amount of memory space

used by array_agg(), string_agg(), and similar aggregate functions that use
"internal" as their transition datatype.  The previous coding thought this
took *no* extra space, since "internal" is pass-by-value; but actually these
aggregates typically consume a great deal of space.  Per bug #5608 from
Itagaki Takahiro, and fix suggestion from Hitoshi Harada.

Back-patch to 8.4, where array_agg was introduced.

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/backend/optimizer/util/clauses.c b/src/backend/optimizer/util/clauses.c
index f6a943fcab..dec753b3a3 100644
--- a/src/backend/optimizer/util/clauses.c
+++ b/src/backend/optimizer/util/clauses.c
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
  *
  *
  * IDENTIFICATION
- *	  $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/optimizer/util/clauses.c,v 1.287 2010/03/19 22:54:41 tgl Exp $
+ *	  $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/optimizer/util/clauses.c,v 1.288 2010/08/14 15:47:13 tgl Exp $
  *
  * HISTORY
  *	  AUTHOR			DATE			MAJOR EVENT
@@ -549,6 +549,18 @@ count_agg_clauses_walker(Node *node, AggClauseCounts *counts)
 
 			counts->transitionSpace += avgwidth + 2 * sizeof(void *);
 		}
+		else if (aggtranstype == INTERNALOID)
+		{
+			/*
+			 * INTERNAL transition type is a special case: although INTERNAL
+			 * is pass-by-value, it's almost certainly being used as a pointer
+			 * to some large data structure.  We assume usage of
+			 * ALLOCSET_DEFAULT_INITSIZE, which is a good guess if the data is
+			 * being kept in a private memory context, as is done by
+			 * array_agg() for instance.
+			 */
+			counts->transitionSpace += ALLOCSET_DEFAULT_INITSIZE;
+		}
 
 		/*
 		 * Complain if the aggregate's arguments contain any aggregates;