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From Tom Lane
Subject pgsql: Prevent parser from believing that views have system columns.
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Msg-id E1TR66M-0007H7-Ds@gemulon.postgresql.org
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Prevent parser from believing that views have system columns.

Views should not have any pg_attribute entries for system columns.
However, we forgot to remove such entries when converting a table to a
view.  This could lead to crashes later on, if someone attempted to
reference such a column, as reported by Kohei KaiGai.

This problem is corrected properly in HEAD (by removing the pg_attribute
entries during conversion), but in the back branches we need to defend
against existing mis-converted views.  This fix costs us an extra syscache
lookup per system column reference, which is annoying but probably not
really measurable in the big scheme of things.

Branch
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REL8_3_STABLE

Details
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http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/2383d6d132ea1908af73f1285c27f22bc8b6065f

Modified Files
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src/backend/parser/parse_relation.c |   11 +++++++++--
src/test/regress/expected/rules.out |   22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
src/test/regress/sql/rules.sql      |   15 +++++++++++++++
3 files changed, 46 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)


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