Report error position in partition bound check

Alexandra Wang <lewang@pivotal.io>

From: Alexandra Wang <lewang@pivotal.io>
To: PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Cc: Ashwin Agrawal <aagrawal@pivotal.io>
Date: 2020-04-09T00:15:57Z
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Hi,

I'm playing with partitioned tables and found a minor thing with the
error reporting of bounds checking when create partitions.

In function check_new_partition_bound(), there are three places where
we call ereport() with a parser_errposition(pstate, spec->location)
argument.  However, that pstate is a dummy ParseState made from NULL,
so the error message never reports the position of the error in the
source query line.


I have attached a patch to pass in a ParseState to
check_new_partition_bound() to enable the reporting of the error
position. Below is what the error message looks like before and after
applying the patch.

-- Create parent table
create table foo (a int, b date) partition by range (b);

-- Before:
create table foo_part_1 partition of foo for values from (date
'2007-01-01') to (date '2006-01-01');
ERROR:  empty range bound specified for partition "foo_part_1"
DETAIL:  Specified lower bound ('2007-01-01') is greater than or equal to
upper bound ('2006-01-01').

-- After:
create table foo_part_1 partition of foo for values from (date
'2007-01-01') to (date '2006-01-01');
ERROR:  empty range bound specified for partition "foo_part_1"
LINE 1: ...eate table foo_part_1 partition of foo for values from (date...
                                                             ^
DETAIL:  Specified lower bound ('2007-01-01') is greater than or equal to
upper bound ('2006-01-01').

Another option is to not pass the parser_errposition() argument at all
to ereport() in this function, since the query is relatively short and
the error message is already descriptive enough.

Alex and Ashwin

Commits

  1. Improve error cursor positions for problems with partition bounds.