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Robert Haas ee252f074b Fix failure to remove dependencies when a partition is detached.
Otherwise, dropping the partitioned table will automatically drop
any previously-detached children, which would be unfortunate.

Ashutosh Bapat and Rahila Syed, reviewed by Amit Langote and by me.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAFjFpRdOwHuGj45i25iLQ4QituA0uH6RuLX1h5deD4KBZJ25yg@mail.gmail.com
2017-06-13 11:51:42 -04:00
Tom Lane 94aced8cd0 Move autogenerated array types out of the way during ALTER ... RENAME.
Commit 9aa3c782c added code to allow CREATE TABLE/CREATE TYPE to not fail
when the desired type name conflicts with an autogenerated array type, by
dint of renaming the array type out of the way.  But I (tgl) overlooked
that the same case arises in ALTER TABLE/TYPE RENAME.  Fix that too.
Back-patch to all supported branches.

Report and patch by Vik Fearing, modified a bit by me

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/0f4ade49-4f0b-a9a3-c120-7589f01d1eb8@2ndquadrant.com
2017-05-26 15:16:59 -04:00
Robert Haas 3ec76ff1f2 Don't explicitly mark range partitioning columns NOT NULL.
This seemed like a good idea originally because there's no way to mark
a range partition as accepting NULL, but that now seems more like a
current limitation than something we want to lock down for all time.
For example, there's a proposal to add the notion of a default
partition which accepts all rows not otherwise routed, which directly
conflicts with the idea that a range-partitioned table should never
allow nulls anywhere.  So let's change this while we still can, by
putting the NOT NULL test into the partition constraint instead of
changing the column properties.

Amit Langote and Robert Haas, reviewed by Amit Kapila

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/8e2dd63d-c6fb-bb74-3c2b-ed6d63629c9d@lab.ntt.co.jp
2017-05-18 13:49:31 -04:00
Tom Lane 12590c5d33 Fix unsafe reference into relcache in constructed CommentStmt.
The CommentStmt made by RebuildConstraintComment() has to pstrdup the
relation name, else it will contain a dangling pointer after that
relcache entry is flushed.  (I'm less sure that pstrdup'ing conname
is necessary, but let's be safe.)  Failure to do this leads to weird
errors or crashes, as reported by Marko Elezovic.

Bug introduced by commit e42375fc8, so back-patch to 9.5 as that was.

Fix by David Rowley, regression test by Michael Paquier

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/DB6PR03MB30775D58E732D4EB0C13725B9AE00@DB6PR03MB3077.eurprd03.prod.outlook.com
2017-05-15 11:33:44 -04:00
Robert Haas 6a4dda44e0 Fix VALIDATE CONSTRAINT to consider NO INHERIT attribute.
Currently, trying to validate a NO INHERIT constraint on the parent will
search for the constraint in child tables (where it is not supposed to
exist), wrongly causing a "constraint does not exist" error.

Amit Langote, per a report from Hans Buschmann.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/20170421184012.24362.19@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2017-04-28 14:48:38 -04:00
Stephen Frost 9139aa1942 Allow ALTER TABLE ONLY on partitioned tables
There is no need to forbid ALTER TABLE ONLY on partitioned tables,
when no partitions exist yet.  This can be handy for users who are
building up their partitioned table independently and will create actual
partitions later.

In addition, this is how pg_dump likes to operate in certain instances.

Author: Amit Langote, with some error message word-smithing by me
2017-04-25 16:57:43 -04:00
Robert Haas 1d5fede4a9 Code review for c94e6942ce.
validateCheckConstraint() shouldn't try to access the storage for
a partitioned table, because it no longer has any.  Creating a
_RETURN table on a partitioned table shouldn't be allowed, both
because there's no value in it and because trying to do so would
involve a validation scan against its nonexistent storage.

Amit Langote, reviewed by Tom Lane.  Regression test outputs
updated to pass by me.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/e5c3cbd3-1551-d6f8-c9e2-51777d632fd2@lab.ntt.co.jp
2017-04-12 11:35:11 -04:00
Robert Haas aa56671836 Give partitioned table "p" in regression tests a less generic name.
And don't drop it, so that we improve the coverage of the pg_upgrade
regression tests.

Amit Langote, per a gripe from Tom Lane

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/9071.1488863082@sss.pgh.pa.us
2017-03-07 11:32:33 -05:00
Simon Riggs 8b4d582d27 Allow partitioned tables to be dropped without CASCADE
Record partitioned table dependencies as DEPENDENCY_AUTO
rather than DEPENDENCY_NORMAL, so that DROP TABLE just works.

Remove all the tests for partitioned tables where earlier
work had deliberately avoided using CASCADE.

Amit Langote, reviewed by Ashutosh Bapat and myself
2017-03-06 15:50:53 +05:30
Tom Lane 1c95f0b478 Use less-generic table name in new regression test case.
Creating global objects named "foo" isn't an especially wise thing,
but especially not in a test script that has already used that name
for something else, and most especially not in a script that runs
in parallel with other scripts that use that name :-(

Per buildfarm.
2017-02-21 12:18:30 -05:00
Robert Haas 59407301a3 Avoid crash in ALTER TABLE not_partitioned DETACH PARTITION.
Amit Langote, reviewed and slightly changed by me.
2017-02-16 08:40:58 -05:00
Robert Haas e28b115612 Don't disallow dropping NOT NULL for a list partition key.
Range partitioning doesn't support nulls in the partitioning columns,
but list partitioning does.

Amit Langote, per a complaint from Amul Sul
2017-02-14 12:13:41 -05:00
Heikki Linnakangas 181bdb90ba Fix typos in comments.
Backpatch to all supported versions, where applicable, to make backpatching
of future fixes go more smoothly.

Josh Soref

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CACZqfqCf+5qRztLPgmmosr-B0Ye4srWzzw_mo4c_8_B_mtjmJQ@mail.gmail.com
2017-02-06 11:33:58 +02:00
Robert Haas c397814953 Teach partitioning tests not to use DROP TABLE ... CASCADE.
This occasionally causes failures; the order in which the affected
objects are listed is not 100% consistent.

Amit Langote
2017-01-19 14:15:40 -05:00
Tom Lane 5ad966ab1c Fix some more regression test row-order-instability issues.
Commit 0563a3a8b just introduced another instance of the same unsafe
testing methodology that appeared in 2ac3ef7a0, which I corrected in
257d81572.  Robert/Amit, please stop doing that.

Also look through the rest of f0e44751d's test cases, and correct some
other queries with underdetermined ordering of results from the system
catalogs.  These haven't failed in the buildfarm yet, but I don't
have any confidence in that staying true.

Per multiple buildfarm members.
2017-01-13 17:32:37 -05:00
Robert Haas 0563a3a8b5 Fix a bug in how we generate partition constraints.
Move the code for doing parent attnos to child attnos mapping for Vars
in partition constraint expressions to a separate function
map_partition_varattnos() and call it from the appropriate places.
Doing it in get_qual_from_partbound(), as is now, would produce wrong
result in certain multi-level partitioning cases, because it only
considers the current pair of parent-child relations.  In certain
multi-level partitioning cases, attnums for the same key attribute(s)
might differ between various levels causing the same attribute to be
numbered differently in different instances of the Var corresponding
to a given attribute.

With this commit, in generate_partition_qual(), we first generate the
the whole partition constraint (considering all levels of partitioning)
and then do the mapping, so that Vars in the final expression are
numbered according the leaf relation (to which it is supposed to apply).

Amit Langote, reviewed by me.
2017-01-13 14:04:35 -05:00
Alvaro Herrera 3957b58b88 Fix ALTER TABLE / SET TYPE for irregular inheritance
If inherited tables don't have exactly the same schema, the USING clause
in an ALTER TABLE / SET DATA TYPE misbehaves when applied to the
children tables since commit 9550e8348b.  Starting with that commit,
the attribute numbers in the USING expression are fixed during parse
analysis.  This can lead to bogus errors being reported during
execution, such as:
   ERROR:  attribute 2 has wrong type
   DETAIL:  Table has type smallint, but query expects integer.

Since it wouldn't do to revert to the original coding, we now apply a
transformation to map the attribute numbers to the correct ones for each
child.

Reported by Justin Pryzby
Analysis by Tom Lane; patch by me.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170102225618.GA10071@telsasoft.com
2017-01-09 19:26:58 -03:00
Robert Haas cd5d3af44e Replace references to COLLATE "en_CA" with COLLATE "POSIX".
Another attmempt to fix the tests which were added by commit
f0e44751d7.
2016-12-07 13:47:34 -05:00
Robert Haas 71efd34fb8 Replace references to COLLATE "en_US" with COLLATE "C".
Commit f0e44751d7 is turning the
buildfarm red; let's try something hopefully more portable.
2016-12-07 13:36:57 -05:00
Robert Haas f0e44751d7 Implement table partitioning.
Table partitioning is like table inheritance and reuses much of the
existing infrastructure, but there are some important differences.
The parent is called a partitioned table and is always empty; it may
not have indexes or non-inherited constraints, since those make no
sense for a relation with no data of its own.  The children are called
partitions and contain all of the actual data.  Each partition has an
implicit partitioning constraint.  Multiple inheritance is not
allowed, and partitioning and inheritance can't be mixed.  Partitions
can't have extra columns and may not allow nulls unless the parent
does.  Tuples inserted into the parent are automatically routed to the
correct partition, so tuple-routing ON INSERT triggers are not needed.
Tuple routing isn't yet supported for partitions which are foreign
tables, and it doesn't handle updates that cross partition boundaries.

Currently, tables can be range-partitioned or list-partitioned.  List
partitioning is limited to a single column, but range partitioning can
involve multiple columns.  A partitioning "column" can be an
expression.

Because table partitioning is less general than table inheritance, it
is hoped that it will be easier to reason about properties of
partitions, and therefore that this will serve as a better foundation
for a variety of possible optimizations, including query planner
optimizations.  The tuple routing based which this patch does based on
the implicit partitioning constraints is an example of this, but it
seems likely that many other useful optimizations are also possible.

Amit Langote, reviewed and tested by Robert Haas, Ashutosh Bapat,
Amit Kapila, Rajkumar Raghuwanshi, Corey Huinker, Jaime Casanova,
Rushabh Lathia, Erik Rijkers, among others.  Minor revisions by me.
2016-12-07 13:17:55 -05:00
Tom Lane a522fc3d80 Fix incorrect trigger-property updating in ALTER CONSTRAINT.
The code to change the deferrability properties of a foreign-key constraint
updated all the associated triggers to match; but a moment's examination of
the code that creates those triggers in the first place shows that only
some of them should track the constraint's deferrability properties.  This
leads to odd failures in subsequent exercise of the foreign key, as the
triggers are fired at the wrong times.  Fix that, and add a regression test
comparing the trigger properties produced by ALTER CONSTRAINT with those
you get by creating the constraint as-intended to begin with.

Per report from James Parks.  Back-patch to 9.4 where this ALTER
functionality was introduced.

Report: <CAJ3Xv+jzJ8iNNUcp4RKW8b6Qp1xVAxHwSXVpjBNygjKxcVuE9w@mail.gmail.com>
2016-10-26 17:05:06 -04:00
Tom Lane fec1ad94df Include typmod when complaining about inherited column type mismatches.
MergeAttributes() rejects cases where columns to be merged have the same
type but different typmod, which is correct; but the error message it
printed didn't show either typmod, which is unhelpful.  Changing this
requires using format_type_with_typemod() in place of TypeNameToString(),
which will have some minor side effects on the way some type names are
printed, but on balance this is an improvement: the old code sometimes
printed one type according to one set of rules and the other type according
to the other set, which could be confusing in its own way.

Oddly, there were no regression test cases covering any of this behavior,
so add some.

Complaint and fix by Amit Langote
2015-12-26 13:41:29 -05:00
Robert Haas f27a6b15e6 Mark CHECK constraints declared NOT VALID valid if created with table.
FOREIGN KEY constraints have behaved this way for a long time, but for
some reason the behavior of CHECK constraints has been inconsistent up
until now.

Amit Langote and Amul Sul, with assorted tweaks by me.
2015-12-16 07:43:56 -05:00
Tom Lane 074c5cfbfb Fix handling of inherited check constraints in ALTER COLUMN TYPE (again).
The previous way of reconstructing check constraints was to do a separate
"ALTER TABLE ONLY tab ADD CONSTRAINT" for each table in an inheritance
hierarchy.  However, that way has no hope of reconstructing the check
constraints' own inheritance properties correctly, as pointed out in
bug #13779 from Jan Dirk Zijlstra.  What we should do instead is to do
a regular "ALTER TABLE", allowing recursion, at the topmost table that
has a particular constraint, and then suppress the work queue entries
for inherited instances of the constraint.

Annoyingly, we'd tried to fix this behavior before, in commit 5ed6546cf,
but we failed to notice that it wasn't reconstructing the pg_constraint
field values correctly.

As long as I'm touching pg_get_constraintdef_worker anyway, tweak it to
always schema-qualify the target table name; this seems like useful backup
to the protections installed by commit 5f173040.

In HEAD/9.5, get rid of get_constraint_relation_oids, which is now unused.
(I could alternatively have modified it to also return conislocal, but that
seemed like a pretty single-purpose API, so let's not pretend it has some
other use.)  It's unused in the back branches as well, but I left it in
place just in case some third-party code has decided to use it.

In HEAD/9.5, also rename pg_get_constraintdef_string to
pg_get_constraintdef_command, as the previous name did nothing to explain
what that entry point did differently from others (and its comment was
equally useless).  Again, that change doesn't seem like material for
back-patching.

I did a bit of re-pgindenting in tablecmds.c in HEAD/9.5, as well.

Otherwise, back-patch to all supported branches.
2015-11-20 14:55:47 -05:00
Robert Haas bc4996e61b Make ALTER .. SET SCHEMA do nothing, instead of throwing an ERROR.
This was already true for CREATE EXTENSION, but historically has not
been true for other object types.  Therefore, this is a backward
incompatibility.  Per discussion on pgsql-hackers, everyone seems to
agree that the new behavior is better.

Marti Raudsepp, reviewed by Haribabu Kommi and myself
2015-11-19 10:49:25 -05:00
Tom Lane 8ab4a6bd3f Fix pg_dump to handle inherited NOT VALID check constraints correctly.
This case seems to have been overlooked when unvalidated check constraints
were introduced, in 9.2.  The code would attempt to dump such constraints
over again for each child table, even though adding them to the parent
table is sufficient.

In 9.2 and 9.3, also fix contrib/pg_upgrade/Makefile so that the "make
clean" target fully cleans up after a failed test.  This evidently got
dealt with at some point in 9.4, but it wasn't back-patched.  I ran into
it while testing this fix ...

Per bug #13656 from Ingmar Brouns.
2015-10-01 16:20:13 -04:00
Simon Riggs 47167b7907 Reduce lock levels for ALTER TABLE SET autovacuum storage options
Reduce lock levels down to ShareUpdateExclusiveLock for all autovacuum-related
relation options when setting them using ALTER TABLE.

Add infrastructure to allow varying lock levels for relation options in later
patches. Setting multiple options together uses the highest lock level required
for any option. Works for both main and toast tables.

Fabrízio Mello, reviewed by Michael Paquier, mild edit and additional regression
tests from myself
2015-08-14 14:19:28 +01:00
Kevin Grittner 253de7e1eb Fix `make installcheck` for serializable transactions.
Commit e5550d5fec added some new
tests for ALTER TABLE which involved table scans.  When
default_transaction_isolation = 'serializable' these acquire
relation-level SIReadLocks.  The test results didn't cope with
that.  Add SIReadLock as the minimum lock level for purposes of
these tests.

This could also be fixed by excluding this type of lock from the
my_locks view, but it would be a bug for SIReadLock to show up for
a relation which was not otherwise locked, so do it this way to
allow that sort of condition to cause a regression test failure.

There is some question whether we could avoid taking SIReadLocks
during these operations, but confirming the safety of that and
figuring out how to avoid the locks is not trivial, and would be
a separate patch.

Backpatch to 9.4 where the new tests were added.
2015-08-06 10:47:47 -05:00
Andrew Dunstan 2cd40adb85 Add IF NOT EXISTS processing to ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN
Fabrízio de Royes Mello, reviewed by Payal Singh, Alvaro Herrera and
Michael Paquier.
2015-07-29 21:30:00 -04:00
Heikki Linnakangas 1a56498e5f Make regression test output stable.
In the test query I added for ALTER TABLE retaining comments, the order of
the result rows was not stable, and varied across systems. Add an ORDER BY
to make the order predictable. This should fix the buildfarm failures.
2015-07-14 16:17:34 +03:00
Heikki Linnakangas e42375fc81 Retain comments on indexes and constraints at ALTER TABLE ... TYPE ...
When a column's datatype is changed, ATExecAlterColumnType() rebuilds all
the affected indexes and constraints, and the comments from the old
indexes/constraints were not carried over.

To fix, create a synthetic COMMENT ON command in the work queue, to re-add
any comments on constraints. For indexes, there's a comment field in
IndexStmt that is used.

This fixes bug #13126, reported by Kirill Simonov. Original patch by
Michael Paquier, reviewed by Petr Jelinek and me. This bug is present in
all versions, but only backpatch to 9.5. Given how minor the issue is, it
doesn't seem worth the work and risk to backpatch further than that.
2015-07-14 11:40:22 +03:00
Tom Lane b00982344a Improve error message and hint for ALTER COLUMN TYPE can't-cast failure.
We already tried to improve this once, but the "improved" text was rather
off-target if you had provided a USING clause.  Also, it seems helpful
to provide the exact text of a suggested USING clause, so users can just
copy-and-paste it when needed.  Per complaint from Keith Rarick and a
suggestion from Merlin Moncure.

Back-patch to 9.2 where the current wording was adopted.
2015-06-12 11:54:03 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 1d8198bb44 Add support for ALTER TABLE IF EXISTS ... RENAME CONSTRAINT
Also add regression test.  Previously this was documented to work, but
didn't.
2015-03-24 19:52:47 -04:00
Tom Lane e0722d9cb5 Avoid corrupting tables when ANALYZE inside a transaction is rolled back.
VACUUM and ANALYZE update the target table's pg_class row in-place, that is
nontransactionally.  This is OK, more or less, for the statistical columns,
which are mostly nontransactional anyhow.  It's not so OK for the DDL hint
flags (relhasindex etc), which might get changed in response to
transactional changes that could still be rolled back.  This isn't a
problem for VACUUM, since it can't be run inside a transaction block nor
in parallel with DDL on the table.  However, we allow ANALYZE inside a
transaction block, so if the transaction had earlier removed the last
index, rule, or trigger from the table, and then we roll back the
transaction after ANALYZE, the table would be left in a corrupted state
with the hint flags not set though they should be.

To fix, suppress the hint-flag updates if we are InTransactionBlock().
This is safe enough because it's always OK to postpone hint maintenance
some more; the worst-case consequence is a few extra searches of pg_index
et al.  There was discussion of instead using a transactional update,
but that would change the behavior in ways that are not all desirable:
in most scenarios we're better off keeping ANALYZE's statistical values
even if the ANALYZE itself rolls back.  In any case we probably don't want
to change this behavior in back branches.

Per bug #11638 from Casey Shobe.  This has been broken for a good long
time, so back-patch to all supported branches.

Tom Lane and Michael Paquier, initial diagnosis by Andres Freund
2014-10-29 18:12:02 -04:00
Fujii Masao 9df492664a Revert "Allow units to be specified in relation option setting value."
This reverts commit e23014f3d4.

As the side effect of the reverted commit, when the unit is
specified, the reloption was stored in the catalog with the unit.
This broke pg_dump (specifically, it prevented pg_dump from
outputting restorable backup regarding the reloption) and
turned the buildfarm red. Revert the commit until the fixed
version is ready.
2014-08-29 05:10:47 +09:00
Fujii Masao e23014f3d4 Allow units to be specified in relation option setting value.
This introduces an infrastructure which allows us to specify the units
like ms (milliseconds) in integer relation option, like GUC parameter.
Currently only autovacuum_vacuum_cost_delay reloption can accept
the units.

Reviewed by Michael Paquier
2014-08-28 15:55:50 +09:00
Alvaro Herrera f41872d0c1 Implement ALTER TABLE .. SET LOGGED / UNLOGGED
This enables changing permanent (logged) tables to unlogged and
vice-versa.

(Docs for ALTER TABLE / SET TABLESPACE got shuffled in an order that
hopefully makes more sense than the original.)

Author: Fabrízio de Royes Mello
Reviewed by: Christoph Berg, Andres Freund, Thom Brown
Some tweaking by Álvaro Herrera
2014-08-22 14:27:00 -04:00
Noah Misch f3fdd257a4 Harden pg_filenode_relation test against concurrent DROP TABLE.
Per buildfarm member prairiedog.  Back-patch to 9.4, where the test was
introduced.

Reviewed by Tom Lane.
2014-06-13 19:57:59 -04:00
Simon Riggs e5550d5fec Reduce lock levels of some ALTER TABLE cmds
VALIDATE CONSTRAINT

CLUSTER ON
SET WITHOUT CLUSTER

ALTER COLUMN SET STATISTICS
ALTER COLUMN SET ()
ALTER COLUMN RESET ()

All other sub-commands use AccessExclusiveLock

Simon Riggs and Noah Misch

Reviews by Robert Haas and Andres Freund
2014-04-06 11:13:43 -04:00
Tom Lane 9613a1d98e Improve regression test for pg_filenode_relation().
Make it print the details in case there's a failure.

Andres Freund, slightly modified by me
2014-03-28 16:58:29 -04:00
Tom Lane b5e0a2a384 Tweak placement of explicit ANALYZE commands in the regression tests.
Make the COPY test, which loads most of the large static tables used in
the tests, also explicitly ANALYZE those tables.  This allows us to get
rid of various ad-hoc, and rather redundant, ANALYZE commands that had
gotten stuck into various test scripts over time to ensure we got
consistent plan choices.  (We could have done a database-wide ANALYZE,
but that would cause stats to get attached to the small static tables
too, which results in plan changes compared to the historical behavior.
I'm not sure that's a good idea, so not going that far for now.)

Back-patch to 9.0, since 9.0 and 9.1 are currently sometimes failing
regression tests for lack of an "ANALYZE tenk1" in the subselect test.
There's no need for this in 8.4 since we didn't print any plans back
then.
2013-12-11 15:09:15 -05:00
Robert Haas 8e18d04d4d Refine our definition of what constitutes a system relation.
Although user-defined relations can't be directly created in
pg_catalog, it's possible for them to end up there, because you can
create them in some other schema and then use ALTER TABLE .. SET SCHEMA
to move them there.  Previously, such relations couldn't afterwards
be manipulated, because IsSystemRelation()/IsSystemClass() rejected
all attempts to modify objects in the pg_catalog schema, regardless
of their origin.  With this patch, they now reject only those
objects in pg_catalog which were created at initdb-time, allowing
most operations on user-created tables in pg_catalog to proceed
normally.

This patch also adds new functions IsCatalogRelation() and
IsCatalogClass(), which is similar to IsSystemRelation() and
IsSystemClass() but with a slightly narrower definition: only TOAST
tables of system catalogs are included, rather than *all* TOAST tables.
This is currently used only for making decisions about when
invalidation messages need to be sent, but upcoming logical decoding
patches will find other uses for this information.

Andres Freund, with some modifications by me.
2013-11-28 20:57:20 -05:00
Tom Lane c28b289bf3 Prevent display of dropped columns in row constraint violation messages.
ExecBuildSlotValueDescription() printed "null" for each dropped column in
a row being complained of by ExecConstraints().  This has some sanity in
terms of the underlying implementation, but is of course pretty surprising
to users.  To fix, we must pass the target relation's descriptor to
ExecBuildSlotValueDescription(), because the slot descriptor it had been
using doesn't get labeled with attisdropped markers.

Per bug #8408 from Maxim Boguk.  Back-patch to 9.2 where the feature of
printing row values in NOT NULL and CHECK constraint violation messages
was introduced.

Michael Paquier and Tom Lane
2013-11-07 14:41:36 -05:00
Robert Haas f01d1ae3a1 Add infrastructure for mapping relfilenodes to relation OIDs.
Future patches are expected to introduce logical replication that
works by decoding WAL.  WAL contains relfilenodes rather than relation
OIDs, so this infrastructure will be needed to find the relation OID
based on WAL contents.

If logical replication does not make it into this release, we probably
should consider reverting this, since it will add some overhead to DDL
operations that create new relations.  One additional index insert per
pg_class row is not a large overhead, but it's more than zero.
Another way of meeting the needs of logical replication would be to
the relation OID to WAL, but that would burden DML operations, not
only DDL.

Andres Freund, with some changes by me.  Design review, in earlier
versions, by Álvaro Herrera.
2013-07-22 11:09:10 -04:00
Tom Lane 5ed6546cf7 Fix handling of inherited check constraints in ALTER COLUMN TYPE.
This case got broken in 8.4 by the addition of an error check that
complains if ALTER TABLE ONLY is used on a table that has children.
We do use ONLY for this situation, but it's okay because the necessary
recursion occurs at a higher level.  So we need to have a separate
flag to suppress recursion without making the error check.

Reported and patched by Pavan Deolasee, with some editorial adjustments by
me.  Back-patch to 8.4, since this is a regression of functionality that
worked in earlier branches.
2012-11-05 13:36:16 -05:00
Alvaro Herrera d7b47e5155 Change syntax of new CHECK NO INHERIT constraints
The initially implemented syntax, "CHECK NO INHERIT (expr)" was not
deemed very good, so switch to "CHECK (expr) NO INHERIT" instead.  This
way it looks similar to SQL-standards compliant constraint attribute.

Backport to 9.2 where the new syntax and feature was introduced.

Per discussion.
2012-07-24 16:01:32 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut c8e086795a Remove whitespace from end of lines
pgindent and perltidy should clean up the rest.
2012-05-15 22:19:41 +03:00
Alvaro Herrera 09ff76fcdb Recast "ONLY" column CHECK constraints as NO INHERIT
The original syntax wasn't universally loved, and it didn't allow its
usage in CREATE TABLE, only ALTER TABLE.  It now works everywhere, and
it also allows using ALTER TABLE ONLY to add an uninherited CHECK
constraint, per discussion.

The pg_constraint column has accordingly been renamed connoinherit.

This commit partly reverts some of the changes in
61d81bd28d, particularly some pg_dump and
psql bits, because now pg_get_constraintdef includes the necessary NO
INHERIT within the constraint definition.

Author: Nikhil Sontakke
Some tweaks by me
2012-04-20 23:56:57 -03:00
Peter Eisentraut 39d74e346c Add support for renaming constraints
reviewed by Josh Berkus and Dimitri Fontaine
2012-03-10 20:19:13 +02:00
Robert Haas 2d1371d3ee Be more clear when a new column name collides with a system column name.
We now use the same error message for ALTER TABLE .. ADD COLUMN or
ALTER TABLE .. RENAME COLUMN that we do for CREATE TABLE.  The old
message was accurate, but might be confusing to users not aware of our
system columns.

Vik Reykja, with some changes by me, and further proofreading by Tom Lane
2012-01-26 12:44:30 -05:00