pgsql: Improve the check for pg_catalog.unknown data type in pg_upgrade

From: Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)postgresql(dot)org>
To: pgsql-committers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: pgsql: Improve the check for pg_catalog.unknown data type in pg_upgrade
Date: 2019-10-16 11:24:48
Message-ID: E1iKhQ8-0003TR-Bb@gemulon.postgresql.org
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Improve the check for pg_catalog.unknown data type in pg_upgrade

The pg_upgrade check for pg_catalog.unknown type when upgrading from 9.6
had a couple of issues with domains and composite types - it detected
even composite types unused in objects with storage. So for example this
was enough to trigger an unnecessary pg_upgrade failure:

CREATE TYPE unknown_composite AS (u pg_catalog.unknown)

On the other hand, this only happened with composite types directly on
the pg_catalog.unknown data type, but not with a domain. So this was not
detected

CREATE DOMAIN unknown_domain AS pg_catalog.unknown;
CREATE TYPE unknown_composite_2 AS (u unknown_domain);

unlike the first example. These false positives and inconsistencies are
unfortunate, but what's worse we've failed to detected objects using the
pg_catalog.unknown type through a domain. So we missed cases like this

CREATE TABLE t (u unknown_composite_2);

The consequence is clusters broken after a pg_upgrade.

This fixes these false positives and false negatives by using the same
recursive CTE introduced by eaf900e842 for sql_identifier. Backpatch all
the way to 10, where the of pg_catalog.unknown data type was restricted.

Author: Tomas Vondra
Backpatch-to: 10-
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16045-673e8fa6b5ace196%40postgresql.org

Branch
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master

Details
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/a524f50d0fc6fe6f2146ce708c2c9576d3734da4

Modified Files
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src/bin/pg_upgrade/version.c | 30 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
1 file changed, 27 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

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