Up through v11 it was sensible to use the "oid" system column as a foreign key column, but since that was removed there's no visible usefulness in making any of the remaining system columns a foreign key. Moreover, since the TupleTableSlot rewrites in v12, such cases actively fail because of implicit assumptions that only user columns appear in foreign keys. The lack of complaints about that seems like good evidence that no one is trying to do it. Hence, rather than trying to repair those assumptions (of which there are at least two, maybe more), let's just forbid the case up front. Per this patch, a system column in either the referenced or referencing side of a foreign key will draw this error; however, putting one in the referenced side would have failed later anyway, since we don't allow unique indexes to be made on system columns. Per bug #17877 from Alexander Lakhin. Back-patch to v12; the case still appears to work in v11, so we shouldn't break it there. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17877-4bcc658e33df6de1@postgresql.org |
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PostgreSQL tests ================ This directory contains a variety of test infrastructure as well as some of the tests in PostgreSQL. Not all tests are here -- in particular, there are more in individual contrib/ modules and in src/bin. Not all these tests get run by "make check". Check src/test/Makefile to see which tests get run automatically. authentication/ Tests for authentication (but see also below) examples/ Demonstration programs for libpq that double as regression tests via "make check" isolation/ Tests for concurrent behavior at the SQL level kerberos/ Tests for Kerberos/GSSAPI authentication and encryption ldap/ Tests for LDAP-based authentication locale/ Sanity checks for locale data, encodings, etc mb/ Tests for multibyte encoding (UTF-8) support modules/ Extensions used only or mainly for test purposes, generally not suitable for installing in production databases perl/ Infrastructure for Perl-based TAP tests recovery/ Test suite for recovery and replication regress/ PostgreSQL's main regression test suite, pg_regress ssl/ Tests to exercise and verify SSL certificate handling subscription/ Tests for logical replication