Make equalTupleDescs() compare attlen/attbyval/attalign rather than
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Make equalTupleDescs() compare attlen/attbyval/attalign rather than assuming comparison of atttypid is sufficient. In a dropped column atttypid will be 0, and we'd better check the physical-storage data to make sure the tupdescs are physically compatible. I do not believe there is a real risk before 8.0, since before that we only used this routine to compare successive states of the tupdesc for a particular relation. But 8.0's typcache.c might be comparing arbitrary tupdescs so we'd better play it safer.
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| src/backend/access/common/tupdesc.c | modified | +16 −5 |