pgsql: Fix ALTER TABLE .. ADD COLUMN with complex inheritance trees

From: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
To: pgsql-committers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: pgsql: Fix ALTER TABLE .. ADD COLUMN with complex inheritance trees
Date: 2024-01-24 05:24:00
Message-ID: E1rSVk0-002pzy-9Q@gemulon.postgresql.org
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Fix ALTER TABLE .. ADD COLUMN with complex inheritance trees

This command, when used to add a column on a parent table with a complex
inheritance tree, tried to update multiple times the same tuple in
pg_attribute for a child table when incrementing attinhcount, causing
failures with "tuple already updated by self" because of a missing
CommandCounterIncrement() between two updates.

This exists for a rather long time, so backpatch all the way down.

Reported-by: Alexander Lakhin
Author: Tender Wang
Reviewed-by: Richard Guo
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18297-b04cd83a55b51e35@postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 12

Branch
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REL_15_STABLE

Details
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/ad6fbbeeb07aa40dd3a90b417c0820543d8626eb

Modified Files
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src/backend/commands/tablecmds.c | 4 ++++
src/test/regress/expected/inherit.out | 17 +++++++++++++++++
src/test/regress/sql/inherit.sql | 9 +++++++++
3 files changed, 30 insertions(+)

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