Fuzzing with Claude reported this bug:

create table pt (a int) partition by range (a);
create table pt1 partition of pt for values from (0) to (3);
create table pt2 partition of pt for values from (3) to (5);
create table t (a int);

select * from pt where a = (null::int in (select a from t))::int;
ERROR:  SubPlan found with no parent plan

This one is interesting.  In the testexpr of the SubPlan, we have the
NULL arg and the strict comparison operator =, so the whole testexpr
is const-folded to const NULL, which means the PARAM_EXEC Param is
const-folded away.  As a result, match_clause_to_partition_key()
treats it as usable for executor-startup pruning, so the expression
ends up in initial_pruning_steps, where ExecDoInitialPruning() has to
evaluate it before any PlanState exists.

I think the simplest fix is to just disallow expressions containing
SubPlans for executor-startup pruning, like attached.  There may well
be a better approach, though.

- Richard

Attachment: v1-0001-Don-t-use-SubPlan-containing-expressions-for-star.patch
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