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| author | Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> | 2020-07-21 12:38:08 -0400 |
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| committer | Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> | 2020-07-21 12:38:08 -0400 |
| commit | 3e66019f15549d3e1e13da665b2549684061d630 (patch) | |
| tree | 1d809a7ba990dfc21af24c3f46071d338ed58045 /doc/src | |
| parent | c273d9d8ce412a475082b1729462845d2abb5ae8 (diff) | |
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Assert that we don't insert nulls into attnotnull catalog columns.
The executor checks for this error, and so does the bootstrap catalog
loader, but we never checked for it in retail catalog manipulations.
The folly of that has now been exposed, so let's add assertions
checking it. Checking in CatalogTupleInsert[WithInfo] and
CatalogTupleUpdate[WithInfo] should be enough to cover this.
Back-patch to v10; the aforesaid functions didn't exist before that,
and it didn't seem worth adapting the patch to the oldest branches.
But given the risk of JIT crashes, I think we certainly need this
as far back as v11.
Pre-v13, we have to explicitly exclude pg_subscription.subslotname
and pg_subscription_rel.srsublsn from the checks, since they are
mismarked. (Even if we change our mind about applying BKI_FORCE_NULL
in the branch tips, it doesn't seem wise to have assertions that
would fire in existing databases.)
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/298837.1595196283@sss.pgh.pa.us
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/src')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/src/sgml/bki.sgml | 5 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/bki.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/bki.sgml index 6776c4a3c18..4e7568f5ce9 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/bki.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/bki.sgml @@ -122,10 +122,7 @@ if they are fixed-width and are not preceded by any nullable column. Where this rule is inadequate, you can force correct marking by using <literal>BKI_FORCE_NOT_NULL</literal> - and <literal>BKI_FORCE_NULL</literal> annotations as needed. But note - that <literal>NOT NULL</literal> constraints are only enforced in the - executor, not against tuples that are generated by random C code, - so care is still needed when manually creating or updating catalog rows. + and <literal>BKI_FORCE_NULL</literal> annotations as needed. </para> <para> |