pgsql: Fix subtly-incorrect matching of parent and child partitioned in - Mailing list pgsql-committers

From Tom Lane
Subject pgsql: Fix subtly-incorrect matching of parent and child partitioned in
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Msg-id E1oOi83-0008Le-OM@gemulon.postgresql.org
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Fix subtly-incorrect matching of parent and child partitioned indexes.

When creating a partitioned index, DefineIndex tries to identify
any existing indexes on the partitions that match the partitioned
index, so that it can absorb those as child indexes instead of
building new ones.  Part of the matching is to compare IndexInfo
structs --- but that wasn't done quite right.  We're comparing
the IndexInfo built within DefineIndex itself to one made from
existing catalog contents by BuildIndexInfo.  Notably, while
BuildIndexInfo will run index expressions and predicates through
expression preprocessing, that has not happened to DefineIndex's
struct.  The result is failure to match and subsequent creation
of duplicate indexes.

The easiest and most bulletproof fix is to build a new IndexInfo
using BuildIndexInfo, thereby guaranteeing that the processing done
is identical.

While here, let's also extract the opfamily and collation data
from the new partitioned index, removing ad-hoc logic that
duplicated knowledge about how those are constructed.

Per report from Christophe Pettus.  Back-patch to v11 where
we invented partitioned indexes.

Richard Guo and Tom Lane

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/8864BFAA-81FD-4BF9-8E06-7DEB8D4164ED@thebuild.com

Branch
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REL_14_STABLE

Details
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/3bfea5cbba983d35506d29563952fbadb782ef52

Modified Files
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src/backend/commands/indexcmds.c       | 23 ++++++++----
src/test/regress/expected/indexing.out | 66 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
src/test/regress/sql/indexing.sql      | 15 +++++++-
3 files changed, 96 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)


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