Re: create partition table caused server crashed with self-referencing foreign key

On Wed, 22 Apr 2020 at 21:30, amul sul <sulamul(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
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> On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 2:27 PM David Rowley <dgrowleyml(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
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>> On Wed, 22 Apr 2020 at 20:11, amul sul <sulamul(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
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>> > On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 1:21 PM Rajkumar Raghuwanshi <rajkumar(dot)raghuwanshi(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
>> >> #2 0x0000000000acd16a in ExceptionalCondition (conditionName=0xc32310 "numfks == attmap->maplen", errorType=0xc2ea23 "FailedAssertion", fileName=0xc2f0bf "tablecmds.c", lineNumber=9046) at assert.c:67
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>> > Looks like this assertion is incorrect, I guess it should have check
>> > numfks <= attmap->maplen instead.
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>> Even that seems like a very strange thing to Assert. Basically it's
>> saying, make sure the number of columns in the foreign key constraint
>> is less than or equal to the number of attributes in parentRel.
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>> It's true we do disallow duplicate column names in the foreign key
>> constraint (at least since 9da867537), but why do we want an Assert to
>> say that? I don't see anything about that code that would break if we
>> did happen to allow duplicate columns in the foreign key. I'd say the
>> Assert should just be removed completely.
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> Understood and agree with you.

I pushed a patch to remove the Assert. I didn't really feel a need to
make any adjustments to the regression tests for this. The Assert was
clearly out of place, it's hard to imagine that this could ever get
broken again.

David