Add some sanity checks to CREATE CAST ... WITHOUT FUNCTION. Disallow

composite, enum and array types, as those are surely not binary-compatible
with anything else because of the embedded OIDs.

Inspired by bug report by Oleg Serov.
This commit is contained in:
Heikki Linnakangas 2009-03-04 11:53:53 +00:00
parent 12f87b2c82
commit 45a10b2531
1 changed files with 34 additions and 3 deletions

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@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
*
*
* IDENTIFICATION
* $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/commands/functioncmds.c,v 1.108 2009/02/24 01:38:09 tgl Exp $
* $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/commands/functioncmds.c,v 1.109 2009/03/04 11:53:53 heikki Exp $
*
* DESCRIPTION
* These routines take the parse tree and pick out the
@ -1470,6 +1470,8 @@ CreateCast(CreateCastStmt *stmt)
{
Oid sourcetypeid;
Oid targettypeid;
char sourcetyptype;
char targettyptype;
Oid funcid;
int nargs;
char castcontext;
@ -1483,15 +1485,17 @@ CreateCast(CreateCastStmt *stmt)
sourcetypeid = typenameTypeId(NULL, stmt->sourcetype, NULL);
targettypeid = typenameTypeId(NULL, stmt->targettype, NULL);
sourcetyptype = get_typtype(sourcetypeid);
targettyptype = get_typtype(targettypeid);
/* No pseudo-types allowed */
if (get_typtype(sourcetypeid) == TYPTYPE_PSEUDO)
if (sourcetyptype == TYPTYPE_PSEUDO)
ereport(ERROR,
(errcode(ERRCODE_WRONG_OBJECT_TYPE),
errmsg("source data type %s is a pseudo-type",
TypeNameToString(stmt->sourcetype))));
if (get_typtype(targettypeid) == TYPTYPE_PSEUDO)
if (targettyptype == TYPTYPE_PSEUDO)
ereport(ERROR,
(errcode(ERRCODE_WRONG_OBJECT_TYPE),
errmsg("target data type %s is a pseudo-type",
@ -1615,6 +1619,33 @@ CreateCast(CreateCastStmt *stmt)
ereport(ERROR,
(errcode(ERRCODE_INVALID_OBJECT_DEFINITION),
errmsg("source and target data types are not physically compatible")));
/*
* We know that composite, enum and array types are never binary-
* compatible with each other. They all have OIDs embedded in them.
*
* Theoretically you could build a user-defined base type that is
* binary-compatible with a composite, enum, or array type. But we
* disallow that too, as in practice such a cast is surely a mistake.
* You can always work around that by writing a cast function.
*/
if (sourcetyptype == TYPTYPE_COMPOSITE ||
targettyptype == TYPTYPE_COMPOSITE)
ereport(ERROR,
(errcode(ERRCODE_INVALID_OBJECT_DEFINITION),
errmsg("composite data types are not binary-compatible")));
if (sourcetyptype == TYPTYPE_ENUM ||
targettyptype == TYPTYPE_ENUM)
ereport(ERROR,
(errcode(ERRCODE_INVALID_OBJECT_DEFINITION),
errmsg("enum data types are not binary-compatible")));
if (OidIsValid(get_element_type(sourcetypeid)) ||
OidIsValid(get_element_type(targettypeid)))
ereport(ERROR,
(errcode(ERRCODE_INVALID_OBJECT_DEFINITION),
errmsg("array data types are not binary-compatible")));
}
/*