We were identifying the updatable generated columns of inheritance
children by transposing the calculation made for their parent.
However, there's nothing that says a traditional-inheritance child
can't have generated columns that aren't there in its parent, or that
have different dependencies than are in the parent's expression.
(At present it seems that we don't enforce that for partitioning
either, which is likely wrong to some degree or other; but the case
clearly needs to be handled with traditional inheritance.)
Hence, drop the very-klugy-anyway "extraUpdatedCols" RTE field
in favor of identifying which generated columns depend on updated
columns during executor startup. In HEAD we can remove
extraUpdatedCols altogether; in back branches, it's still there but
always empty. Another difference between the HEAD and back-branch
versions of this patch is that in HEAD we can add the new bitmap field
to ResultRelInfo, but that would cause an ABI break in back branches.
Like 4b3e37993, add a List field at the end of struct EState instead.
Back-patch to v13. The bogus calculation is also being made in v12,
but it doesn't have the same visible effect because we don't use it
to decide which generated columns to recalculate; as a consequence of
which the patch doesn't apply easily. I think that there might still
be a demonstrable bug associated with trigger firing conditions, but
that's such a weird corner-case usage that I'm content to leave it
unfixed in v12.
Amit Langote and Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+HiwqFshLKNvQUd1DgwJ-7tsTp=dwv7KZqXC4j2wYBV1aCDUA@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2793383.1672944799@sss.pgh.pa.us
For GENERATED columns, we record all dependencies of the generation
expression as AUTO dependencies of the column itself. This means
that the generated column is silently dropped if any dependency
is removed, even if CASCADE wasn't specified. This is at least
a POLA violation, but I think it's actually based on a misreading
of the standard. The standard does say that you can't drop a
dependent GENERATED column in RESTRICT mode; but that's buried down
in a subparagraph, on a different page from some pseudocode that
makes it look like an AUTO drop is being suggested.
Change this to be more like the way that we handle regular default
expressions, ie record the dependencies as NORMAL dependencies of
the pg_attrdef entry. Also, make the pg_attrdef entry's dependency
on the column itself be INTERNAL not AUTO. That has two effects:
* the column will go away, not just lose its default, if any
dependency of the expression is dropped with CASCADE. So we
don't need any special mechanism to make that happen.
* it provides an additional cross-check preventing someone from
dropping the default expression without dropping the column.
catversion bump because of change in the contents of pg_depend
(which also requires a change in one information_schema view).
Per bug #17439 from Kevin Humphreys. Although this is a longstanding
bug, it seems impractical to back-patch because of the need for
catalog contents changes.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17439-7df4421197e928f0@postgresql.org
This was previously allowed, but I think that was just an oversight.
It's a clear violation of the rule that a generated column cannot
depend on itself or other generated columns. Moreover, because the
code was relying on the assumption that no such cross-references
exist, it was pretty easy to crash ALTER TABLE and perhaps other
places. Even if you managed not to crash, you got quite unstable,
implementation-dependent results.
Per report from Vitaly Ustinov.
Back-patch to v12 where GENERATED came in.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAM_DEiWR2DPT6U4xb-Ehigozzd3n3G37ZB1+867zbsEVtYoJww@mail.gmail.com
We consider this supported (though I've got my doubts that it's a
good idea, because tableoid is not immutable). However, several
code paths failed to fill the field in soon enough, causing such
a GENERATED expression to see zero or the wrong value. This
occurred when ALTER TABLE adds a new GENERATED column to a table
with existing rows, and during regular INSERT or UPDATE on a
foreign table with GENERATED columns.
Noted during investigation of a report from Vitaly Ustinov.
Back-patch to v12 where GENERATED came in.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAM_DEiWR2DPT6U4xb-Ehigozzd3n3G37ZB1+867zbsEVtYoJww@mail.gmail.com
When running ALTER TABLE t2 INHERIT t1, we must check that columns in
t2 that correspond to a generated column in t1 are also generated and
have the same generation expression. Otherwise, this would allow
creating setups that a normal CREATE TABLE sequence would not allow.
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/22de27f6-7096-8d96-4619-7b882932ca25@2ndquadrant.com
One can say "INSERT INTO tab(generated_col) VALUES (DEFAULT)" and not
draw an error. But the equivalent case for a multi-row VALUES list
always threw an error, even if one properly said DEFAULT in each row.
Fix that. While here, improve the test cases for nearby logic about
OVERRIDING SYSTEM/USER values.
Dean Rasheed
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/9q0sgcr416t.fsf@gmx.us
The current implementation cannot handle this correctly, so just
forbid it for now.
GENERATED clauses must be attached to the column definition and cannot
be added later like DEFAULT, so if a child table has a generation
expression that the parent does not have, the child column will
necessarily be an attlocal column. So to implement ALTER TABLE ONLY /
DROP EXPRESSION, we'd need extra code to update attislocal of the
direct child tables, somewhat similar to how DROP COLUMN does it, so
that the resulting state can be properly dumped and restored.
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/15830.1575468847%40sss.pgh.pa.us
In some corner cases, this could also lead to corrupted values being
included in the tuple.
Users who are concerned that they are affected by this should first
upgrade and then perform a base backup of their database and restore onto
an off-line server. They should then query each table with generated
columns to ensure there are no rows where the generated expression does
not match a newly calculated version of the GENERATED ALWAYS expression.
If no crashes occur and no rows are returned then you're not affected.
Fixes bug #16369.
Reported-by: Cameron Ezell
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16369-5845a6f1bef59884@postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 12 (where GENERATED ALWAYS columns were added.)
ALTER TABLE failed if a column referenced in a GENERATED expression
had been added or changed in type earlier in the ALTER command.
That's because the GENERATED expression needs to be evaluated
against the table's updated tuples, but it was being evaluated
against the original tuples. (Fortunately the executor has adequate
cross-checks to notice the mismatch, so we just got an obscure error
message and not anything more dangerous.)
Per report from Andreas Joseph Krogh. Back-patch to v12 where
GENERATED was added.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/VisenaEmail.200.231b0a41523275d0.16ea7f800c7@tc7-visena
This code was still using the old style of forming a heap tuple rather
than using tuple slots. This would be less efficient if a non-heap
access method was used. And using tuple slots is actually quite a bit
faster when using heap as well.
Also add some test cases for generated columns with null values and
with varlena values. This lack of coverage was discovered while
working on this patch.
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/20190331025744.ugbsyks7czfcoksd%40alap3.anarazel.de
The syntax
GENERATED BY DEFAULT AS (expr)
is not allowed but we have to accept it in the grammar to avoid
shift/reduce conflicts because of the similar syntax for identity
columns. The existing code just ignored this, incorrectly. Add an
explicit error check and a bespoke error message.
Reported-by: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
This is an SQL-standard feature that allows creating columns that are
computed from expressions rather than assigned, similar to a view or
materialized view but on a column basis.
This implements one kind of generated column: stored (computed on
write). Another kind, virtual (computed on read), is planned for the
future, and some room is left for it.
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Reviewed-by: Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/b151f851-4019-bdb1-699e-ebab07d2f40a@2ndquadrant.com
