Problem in AlterTableAddConstraint? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Philip Warner
Subject Problem in AlterTableAddConstraint?
Date
Msg-id 3.0.5.32.20001129024911.02c4e6d0@mail.rhyme.com.au
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Browsing through backend/commands/command.c I noticed the following code:
   if (indexStruct->indisunique)   {       List       *attrl;
       /* go through the fkconstraint->pk_attrs list */       foreach(attrl, fkconstraint->pk_attrs)       {
Ident*attr=lfirst(attrl);           found = false;           for (i = 0; i < INDEX_MAX_KEYS && indexStruct->indkey[i]
!=0;
 
i++)           {               int pkattno = indexStruct->indkey[i];               if (pkattno>0)               {
           char *name = NameStr(rel_attrs[pkattno-1]->attname);                   if (strcmp(name, attr->name)==0)
            {                       found = true;                       break;                   }               }
    }           if (!found)               break;       }   }
 

which is (I think) supposed to be checking for a unique index on the FK
fields in the referenced table.

Unfortunately, my reading of this code suggests it is doing the following:
   for each column in the FK
       see if we can find the column in the index       if not, then die
   next FK column

The problem with this is that it needs to ensure a 1:1 match between
columns for the UNIQUE constraint requirement to be satisfied...I think.

To give an example,
   create table c2(f1 integer, f2 integer, unique(f1,f2));   create table c1(f1 integer, f2 integer, foreign key(f1)
references
c2(f1));

is allowed with current sources.

I'd guess that adding code to ensure the column lists are the same size
would fix the problem.


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