Check collation when creating partitioned index

Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>

Commit: 15d485921b1c2125d551e87a1f04be9d5c124b15
Author: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
Date: 2023-12-01T15:14:22Z
Releases: 15.6
Check collation when creating partitioned index

When creating a partitioned index, the partition key must be a subset
of the index's columns.  But this currently doesn't check that the
collations between the partition key and the index definition match.
So you can construct a unique index that fails to enforce uniqueness.
(This would most likely involve a nondeterministic collation, so it
would have to be crafted explicitly and is not something that would
just happen by accident.)

This patch adds the required collation check.  As a result, any
previously allowed unique index that has a collation mismatch would no
longer be allowed to be created.

Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/3327cb54-f7f1-413b-8fdb-7a9dceebb938%40eisentraut.org

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