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Repair misbehavior with duplicate entries in FK SET column lists.

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Since v15 we've had an option to apply a foreign key constraint's
ON DELETE SET DEFAULT or SET NULL action to just some of the
referencing columns.  There was not a check for duplicate entries in
the list of columns-to-set, though.  That caused a potential memory
stomp in CreateConstraintEntry(), which incautiously assumed that
the list of columns-to-set couldn't be longer than the number of key
columns.  Even after fixing that, the case doesn't work because you
get an error like "multiple assignments to same column" from the SQL
command that is generated to do the update.

We could either raise an error for duplicate columns or silently
suppress the dups, and after a bit of thought I chose to do the
latter.  This is motivated by the fact that duplicates in the FK
column list are legal, so it's not real clear why duplicates
in the columns-to-set list shouldn't be.  Of course there's no
need to actually set the column more than once.

I left in the fix in CreateConstraintEntry() too, just because
it didn't seem like such low-level code ought to be making
assumptions about what it's handed.

Bug: #18879
Reported-by: Yu Liang <luy70@psu.edu>
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18879-259fc59d072bd4d7@postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 15
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Tom Lane
2025-04-04 20:11:48 -04:00
parent 0f43083d16
commit 43b8e6c4ab
4 changed files with 34 additions and 10 deletions
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src/test/regress/expected/foreign_key.out
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@@ -837,7 +837,8 @@ CREATE TABLE FKTABLE (
fk_id_del_set_null int,
fk_id_del_set_default int DEFAULT 0,
FOREIGN KEY (tid, fk_id_del_set_null) REFERENCES PKTABLE ON DELETE SET NULL (fk_id_del_set_null),
FOREIGN KEY (tid, fk_id_del_set_default) REFERENCES PKTABLE ON DELETE SET DEFAULT (fk_id_del_set_default)
-- this tests handling of duplicate entries in SET DEFAULT column list
FOREIGN KEY (tid, fk_id_del_set_default) REFERENCES PKTABLE ON DELETE SET DEFAULT (fk_id_del_set_default, fk_id_del_set_default)
);
SELECT pg_get_constraintdef(oid) FROM pg_constraint WHERE conrelid = 'fktable'::regclass::oid ORDER BY oid;
pg_get_constraintdef

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src/test/regress/sql/foreign_key.sql
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@@ -517,7 +517,8 @@ CREATE TABLE FKTABLE (
fk_id_del_set_null int,
fk_id_del_set_default int DEFAULT 0,
FOREIGN KEY (tid, fk_id_del_set_null) REFERENCES PKTABLE ON DELETE SET NULL (fk_id_del_set_null),
FOREIGN KEY (tid, fk_id_del_set_default) REFERENCES PKTABLE ON DELETE SET DEFAULT (fk_id_del_set_default)
-- this tests handling of duplicate entries in SET DEFAULT column list
FOREIGN KEY (tid, fk_id_del_set_default) REFERENCES PKTABLE ON DELETE SET DEFAULT (fk_id_del_set_default, fk_id_del_set_default)
);
SELECT pg_get_constraintdef(oid) FROM pg_constraint WHERE conrelid = 'fktable'::regclass::oid ORDER BY oid;