Re: BUG #15668: Server crash in transformPartitionRangeBounds

Amit Langote <langote_amit_f8@lab.ntt.co.jp>

From: Amit Langote <Langote_Amit_f8@lab.ntt.co.jp>
To: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>, Amit Langote <amitlangote09@gmail.com>
Cc: exclusion@gmail.com, PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-bugs@lists.postgresql.org>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>
Date: 2019-03-06T07:00:42Z
Lists: pgsql-bugs, pgsql-hackers
Hi,

On 2019/03/06 15:48, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 05, 2019 at 11:04:17PM +0900, Amit Langote wrote:
>> Maybe we should error out as follows in
>> transformPartitionRangeBounds(), although that means we'll get
>> different error message than when using list partitioning syntax:
> 
> Hm.  I don't think that this is a good idea as you could lose some
> information for the expression transformation handling, and the error
> handling becomes inconsistent depending on the partition bound
> strategy.  It seems to me that if we cannot extract any special value
> from the ColumnRef expression generated, then we ought to let
> transformPartitionBoundValue() and particularly transformExprRecurse()
> do the analysis work and complain if needed:
> =# CREATE TABLE rp_part PARTITION OF range_parted FOR VALUES FROM
> (unknown.unknown) TO (1);
> ERROR:  42P01: missing FROM-clause entry for table "unknown"
> LINE 1: ...p_part PARTITION OF range_parted FOR VALUES FROM
> (unknown.un...
> =# CREATE TABLE rp_part PARTITION OF range_parted FOR VALUES FROM
> (a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a) TO (1);
> ERROR:  42601: improper qualified name (too many dotted names):
> a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a
> LINE 1: ...p_part PARTITION OF range_parted FOR VALUES FROM
> (a.a.a.a.a....
> 
> What about something like the attached instead?  Minus the test
> cases which should go to create_table.sql of course.

Thanks for looking at this.  Your patch seems better, because it allows us
to keep the error message consistent with the message one would get with
list-partitioned syntax.

Thanks,
Amit



Commits

  1. Fix crash when using partition bound expressions

  2. Allow generalized expression syntax for partition bounds