postgresql/src/test/regress
Alvaro Herrera d45597f72f
Disallow direct change of NO INHERIT of not-null constraints
We support changing NO INHERIT constraint to INHERIT for constraints in
child relations when adding a constraint to some ancestor relation, and
also during pg_upgrade's schema restore; but other than those special
cases, command ALTER TABLE ADD CONSTRAINT should not be allowed to
change an existing constraint from NO INHERIT to INHERIT, as that would
require to process child relations so that they also acquire an
appropriate constraint, which we may not be in a position to do.  (It'd
also be surprising behavior.)

It is conceivable that we want to allow ALTER TABLE SET NOT NULL to make
such a change; but in that case some more code is needed to implement it
correctly, so for now I've made that throw the same error message.

Also, during the prep phase of ALTER TABLE ADD CONSTRAINT, acquire locks
on all descendant tables; otherwise we might operate on child tables on
which no locks are held, particularly in the mode where a primary key
causes not-null constraints to be created on children.

Reported-by: Alexander Lakhin <exclusion@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/7d923a66-55f0-3395-cd40-81c142b5448b@gmail.com
2024-05-02 17:26:30 +02:00
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data Fix full text search to handle NOT above a phrase search correctly. 2020-04-27 12:21:04 -04:00
expected Disallow direct change of NO INHERIT of not-null constraints 2024-05-02 17:26:30 +02:00
sql Disallow direct change of NO INHERIT of not-null constraints 2024-05-02 17:26:30 +02:00
.gitignore Fix inconsistencies and typos in the tree, take 10 2019-08-13 13:53:41 +09:00
GNUmakefile Update copyright for 2024 2024-01-03 20:49:05 -05:00
Makefile Remove AIX support 2024-02-28 15:17:23 +04:00
README
meson.build Update copyright for 2024 2024-01-03 20:49:05 -05:00
parallel_schedule Implement ALTER TABLE ... SPLIT PARTITION ... command 2024-04-07 01:18:44 +03:00
pg_regress.c pg_regress: Save errno in emit_tap_output_v() and switch to %m 2024-04-04 11:33:07 +09:00
pg_regress.h Update copyright for 2024 2024-01-03 20:49:05 -05:00
pg_regress_main.c Fix handling of expecteddir in pg_regress 2024-03-15 17:02:07 +01:00
regress.c Mop-up for AIX-ectomy: remove now-dead test code. 2024-02-28 14:34:19 -05:00
regressplans.sh Fix inconsistencies in the code 2019-07-08 13:15:09 +09:00
resultmap Remove HP-UX port. 2022-07-08 14:05:05 +12:00

README

Documentation concerning how to run these regression tests and interpret
the results can be found in the PostgreSQL manual, in the chapter
"Regression Tests".