Re: unsupportable composite type partition keys

On Fri, Jan 31, 2020 at 04:20:36PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > On Sun, Dec 22, 2019 at 10:51 PM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> >> While poking at this, I also started to wonder why CheckAttributeType
> >> wasn't recursing into ranges, since those are our other kind of
> >> container type. And the answer is that it must, because we allow
> >> creation of ranges over composite types:
>
> > While working on regression tests for index collation versioning [1],
> > I noticed that the 2nd patch apparently broke the ability to create a
> > table using a range over collatable datatype attribute, which we
> > apparently don't test anywhere.
>
> Ugh.
>
> > AFAICT, this is only a thinko in CheckAttributeType(), where the range
> > collation should be provided rather than the original tuple desc one,
> > as per attached. I also added a create/drop table in an existing
> > regression test that was already creating range over collatable type.
>
> Looks good, although I think maybe we'd better test the case a little
> harder than this. Will tweak that and push -- thanks!

Ah, I wasn't sure that additional tests on a table would be worthwhile enough.
Thanks for tweaking and pushing!