pgsql: Set all variable-length fields of pg_attribute to null on column - Mailing list pgsql-committers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject pgsql: Set all variable-length fields of pg_attribute to null on column
Date
Msg-id E1rGmdC-00BRUq-IG@gemulon.postgresql.org
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Set all variable-length fields of pg_attribute to null on column drop

When a column is dropped, the fields attacl, attoptions, and
attfdwoptions were kept unchanged.  This is probably harmless, but it
seems wasteful, and leaves potentially dangling data lying around (for
example, attacl could contain references to users that are later also
dropped).

Change this to set those fields to null when a column is marked as
dropped.

Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/249d819d-1763-4580-8110-0bf91a0f08b7@eisentraut.org

Branch
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master

Details
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/3e2e0d5ad7fcb89d18a71cbfc885ef184e1b6f2e

Modified Files
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src/backend/catalog/heap.c | 39 +++++++++++++++++++++------------------
1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)


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