sketchy partcollation handling

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Amit Langote <amitlangote09(at)gmail(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: sketchy partcollation handling
Date: 2017-06-02 16:31:30
Message-ID: CA+Tgmoba5mtPgM3NKfG06vv8na5gGbVOj0h4zvivXQwLw8wXXQ@mail.gmail.com
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If you create a partitioned table in the obvious way, partcollation ends up 0:

rhaas=# create table foo (a int, b text) partition by list (a);
CREATE TABLE
rhaas=# select * from pg_partitioned_table;
partrelid | partstrat | partnatts | partattrs | partclass |
partcollation | partexprs
-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+---------------+-----------
16420 | l | 1 | 1 | 1978 | 0 |
(1 row)

You could argue that 0 is an OK value there; offhand, I'm not sure
about that. But there's nothing in
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/static/catalog-pg-partitioned-table.html
which indicates that some entries can be 0 rather than a valid
collation OID. And this is definitely not OK:

rhaas=# select * from pg_depend where objid = 16420;
classid | objid | objsubid | refclassid | refobjid | refobjsubid | deptype
---------+-------+----------+------------+----------+-------------+---------
1259 | 16420 | 0 | 2615 | 2200 | 0 | n
1259 | 16420 | 0 | 3456 | 0 | 0 | n
(2 rows)

We shouldn't be storing a dependency on non-existing collation 0.

I'm not sure whether the bug here is that we should have a valid
collation OID there rather than 0, or whether the bug is that we
shouldn't be recording a dependency on anything other than a real
collation OID, but something about this is definitely not right.

--
Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company

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