pgsql: Avoid unconditionally filling in missing values with NULL in pgo - Mailing list pgsql-committers

From Amit Kapila
Subject pgsql: Avoid unconditionally filling in missing values with NULL in pgo
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Msg-id E1r7Sd9-007RnO-SB@gemulon.postgresql.org
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Avoid unconditionally filling in missing values with NULL in pgoutput.

52e4f0cd4 introduced a bug in pgoutput in which missing values in tuples
were incorrectly filled in with NULL. The problem was the use of
CreateTupleDescCopy where CreateTupleDescCopyConstr was required, as the
former drops the constraints in the tuple description (specifically, the
default value constraint) on the floor.

The bug could result in incorrectness when a table replicated via
`REPLICA IDENTITY FULL` underwent a schema change that added a column
with a default value. The problem is that in such cases updates fill NULL
values in old tuples for missing columns for default values. Then on the
subscriber, we failed to find a matching tuple and missed updating the
required row.

Author: Nikhil Benesch
Reviewed-by: Hou Zhijie, Amit Kapila
Backpatch-through: 15
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAPWqQZTEpZQamYsGMn6ZDRvVywwpVPiKH6OY4KSgA+NmeqFNzA@mail.gmail.com

Branch
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REL_15_STABLE

Details
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/a77fb8c685495ba100e5fbe3ac78d9cd289bd48a

Modified Files
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src/backend/replication/pgoutput/pgoutput.c |  4 +--
src/test/subscription/t/100_bugs.pl         | 53 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 55 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)


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