Re: \d with triggers: more than one row returned by a subquery used as an expression

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Amit Langote <amitlangote09@gmail.com>
Date: 2022-01-17T22:02:00Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com> writes:
> On Fri, Dec 17, 2021 at 09:43:56AM -0600, Justin Pryzby wrote:
>> I want to mention that the 2nd problem I mentioned here is still broken.
>> https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20210717010259.GU20208@telsasoft.com
>> It happens if non-inheritted triggers on child and parent have the same name.

> This is the fix I was proposing
> It depends on pg_partition_ancestors() to return its partitions in order:
> this partition => parent => ... => root.

I don't think that works at all.  I might be willing to accept the
assumption about pg_partition_ancestors()'s behavior, but you're also
making an assumption about how the output of pg_partition_ancestors()
is joined to "pg_trigger AS u", and I really don't think that's safe.

ISTM the real problem is the assumption that only related triggers could
share a tgname, which evidently isn't true.  I think this query needs to
actually match on tgparentid, rather than taking shortcuts.  If we don't
want to use a recursive CTE, maybe we could define it as only looking up
to the immediate parent, rather than necessarily finding the root?

			regards, tom lane



Commits

  1. Fix psql \d's query for identifying parent triggers.