Re: BUG #13656: table inheritance, pg_dump emits same constraint for all inheritors causing errors

From: Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: swingi(at)gmail(dot)com, PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: BUG #13656: table inheritance, pg_dump emits same constraint for all inheritors causing errors
Date: 2015-10-01 23:21:59
Message-ID: CAB7nPqRKhXy3BzDkAAXnpM_izqcNNPhtaNS=aOxLySx7qfX67A@mail.gmail.com
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On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 3:49 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> swingi(at)gmail(dot)com writes:
>> I just noticed that when you add a not valid constraint to a table that is
>> inherited, this will result in pg_dump emitting an add constraint operation
>> for every table in the inheritance hierarchy. Therefore restoring a dump
>> will cause errors. Below is an example, first with a valid constraint (goes
>> well), and then the not valid constraint.
>
> Seems to be a simple oversight in the code for handling not-valid
> constraints. Thanks for the report!

Tom, are you working on a fix? I began looking at it a bit when this
has been posted FWIW so I could post a patch except that I run out of
fuel yesterday :)
--
Michael

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