Re: SQL:2011 application time

Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
To: Paul Jungwirth <pj@illuminatedcomputing.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, jian he <jian.universality@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>, vignesh C <vignesh21@gmail.com>
Date: 2025-01-23T15:31:09Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

Commits

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  1. Rename gist stratnum support function

  2. Remove support for temporal RESTRICT foreign keys

  3. Cache NO ACTION foreign keys separately from RESTRICT foreign keys

  4. Fix NO ACTION temporal foreign keys when the referenced endpoints change

  5. Improve whitespace in without_overlaps test

  6. Tests for logical replication with temporal keys

  7. Support for GiST in get_equal_strategy_number()

  8. Make the conditions in IsIndexUsableForReplicaIdentityFull() more explicit

  9. Replace get_equal_strategy_number_for_am() by get_equal_strategy_number()

  10. Improve internal logical replication error for missing equality strategy

  11. Simplify IsIndexUsableForReplicaIdentityFull()

  12. Fix ALTER TABLE / REPLICA IDENTITY for temporal tables

  13. doc: Update pg_constraint.conexclop docs for WITHOUT OVERLAPS

  14. doc: Add PERIOD to ALTER TABLE reference docs

  15. doc: Add WITHOUT OVERLAPS to ALTER TABLE reference docs

  16. Add temporal FOREIGN KEY contraints

  17. Add temporal PRIMARY KEY and UNIQUE constraints

  18. Add stratnum GiST support function

  19. Avoid crashing when a JIT-inlined backend function throws an error.

  20. Revert temporal primary keys and foreign keys

  21. Fix ON CONFLICT DO NOTHING/UPDATE for temporal indexes

  22. Add test for REPLICA IDENTITY with a temporal key

  23. Use half-open interval notation in without_overlaps tests

  24. Use daterange and YMD in without_overlaps tests instead of tsrange.

  25. Rename pg_constraint.conwithoutoverlaps to conperiod

  26. Fix comment on gist_stratnum_btree

  27. Add missing TAP test name

  28. Improve error handling of HMAC computations

  29. Rename functions to avoid future conflicts

On 22.01.25 05:00, Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org> writes:
>> I have committed the fix for foreign key NO ACTION (patch 0002, this did
>> not require patch 0001).
> 
> That commit seems to be causing occasional buildfarm failures:
> 
> https://buildfarm.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=indri&dt=2025-01-22%2001%3A29%3A35
> https://buildfarm.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=mylodon&dt=2025-01-22%2001%3A17%3A14
> 
> Both of these look like
> 
> --- /Users/buildfarm/bf-data/HEAD/pgsql.build/src/test/regress/expected/without_overlaps.out	2025-01-21 20:29:36
> +++ /Users/buildfarm/bf-data/HEAD/pgsql.build/src/test/regress/results/without_overlaps.out	2025-01-21 20:43:08
> @@ -1792,8 +1792,6 @@
>     SET valid_at = CASE WHEN lower(valid_at) = '2018-01-01' THEN daterange('2018-01-01', '2018-01-05')
>                         WHEN lower(valid_at) = '2018-02-01' THEN daterange('2018-01-05', '2018-03-01') END
>     WHERE id = '[6,7)';
> -ERROR:  update or delete on table "temporal_rng" violates RESTRICT setting of foreign key constraint "temporal_fk_rng2rng_fk" on table "temporal_fk_rng2rng"
> -DETAIL:  Key (id, valid_at)=([6,7), [2018-01-01,2018-02-01)) is referenced from table "temporal_fk_rng2rng".
>   -- a PK update that fails because both are referenced (even before commit):
>   BEGIN;
>     ALTER TABLE temporal_fk_rng2rng
> 
> ie, an expected error did not get thrown.

I suspect the nested locking clauses in the new SQL query in the patch. 
I don't see anything else in the patch that would possibly create this 
kind unstable behavior.

Paul, what do you think?

I'll revert the patch soon unless we have a quick fix coming.