Re: pg_restore - generated column - not populating

Santosh Udupi <email@hitha.net>

From: Santosh Udupi <email@hitha.net>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@aklaver.com>, pgsql-bugs@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2021-05-04T15:08:13Z
Lists: pgsql-bugs, pgsql-general
Thank you so much!!

On Tue, May 4, 2021 at 5:26 AM Peter Eisentraut <
peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com> wrote:

> On 26.04.21 15:40, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> >> I suspect this example is revealing bugs in both the backend
> >> (ATTACH PARTITION ought to take care of this, no?) and pg_dump
> >> (the backend can't be blamed for pg_dump's choices of columns
> >> to dump).  Peter?
> >
> > The backend side of this would be fixed by the proposed
> > <
> https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/ac35da1c-e746-ea19-bfc3-84819a4e907d%40enterprisedb.com>
>
> > (it's the same code for ALTER TABLE ... INHERIT and ATTACH PARTITION).
> >
> > The pg_dump side can apparently be fixed by adding
> >
> > diff --git a/src/bin/pg_dump/common.c b/src/bin/pg_dump/common.c
> > index 1a261a5545..c210883ca3 100644
> > --- a/src/bin/pg_dump/common.c
> > +++ b/src/bin/pg_dump/common.c
> > @@ -585,7 +585,7 @@ flagInhAttrs(DumpOptions *dopt, TableInfo *tblinfo,
> > int numTables)
> >             }
> >
> >             /* Remove generation expression from child */
> > -           if (foundGenerated && !dopt->binary_upgrade)
> > +           if (foundGenerated && !dopt->binary_upgrade &&
> > !tbinfo->ispartition)
> >                 tbinfo->attrdefs[j] = NULL;
> >         }
> >     }
> >
> > Looks like this was accidentally broken by the last minor release's
> > fixes in this area.
>
> Both of these issues have been fixed and will be in the next minor
> releases.
>

Commits

  1. pg_dump: Fix dump of generated columns in partitions