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Tom Lane 1d92a0c9f7 Redesign the partition dependency mechanism. The original setup for dependencies of partitioned objects had serious problems: 1. It did not verify that a drop cascading to a partition-child object also cascaded to at least one of the object's partition parents. Now, normally a child object would share all its dependencies with one or another parent (e.g. a child index's opclass dependencies would be shared with the parent index), so that this oversight is usually harmless. But if some dependency failed to fit this pattern, the child could be dropped while all its parents remain, creating a logically broken situation. (It's easy to construct artificial cases that break it, such as attaching an unrelated extension dependency to the child object and then dropping the extension. I'm not sure if any less-artificial cases exist.) 2. Management of partition dependencies during ATTACH/DETACH PARTITION was complicated and buggy; for example, after detaching a partition table it was possible to create cases where a formerly-child index should be dropped and was not, because the correct set of dependencies had not been reconstructed. Less seriously, because multiple partition relationships were represented identically in pg_depend, there was an order-of-traversal dependency on which partition parent was cited in error messages. We also had some pre-existing order-of-traversal hazards for error messages related to internal and extension dependencies. This is cosmetic to users but causes testing problems. To fix #1, add a check at the end of the partition tree traversal to ensure that at least one partition parent got deleted. To fix #2, establish a new policy that partition dependencies are in addition to, not instead of, a child object's usual dependencies; in this way ATTACH/DETACH PARTITION need not cope with adding or removing the usual dependencies. To fix the cosmetic problem, distinguish between primary and secondary partition dependency entries in pg_depend, by giving them different deptypes. (They behave identically except for having different priorities for being cited in error messages.) This means that the former 'I' dependency type is replaced with new 'P' and 'S' types. This also fixes a longstanding bug that after handling an internal dependency by recursing to the owning object, findDependentObjects did not verify that the current target was now scheduled for deletion, and did not apply the current recursion level's objflags to it. Perhaps that should be back-patched; but in the back branches it would only matter if some concurrent transaction had removed the internal-linkage pg_depend entry before the recursive call found it, or the recursive call somehow failed to find it, both of which seem unlikely. Catversion bump because the contents of pg_depend change for partitioning relationships. Patch HEAD only. It's annoying that we're not fixing #2 in v11, but there seems no practical way to do so given that the problem is exactly a poor choice of what entries to put in pg_depend. We can't really fix that while staying compatible with what's in pg_depend in existing v11 installations. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-Wzkypv1R+teZrr71U23J578NnTBt2X8+Y=Odr4pOdW1rXg@mail.gmail.com		7 years ago
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expected	Redesign the partition dependency mechanism.	7 years ago
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parallel_schedule	Avoid creation of the free space map for small heap relations, take 2.	7 years ago
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resultmap	Make float exponent output on Windows look the same as elsewhere.	7 years ago
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README

Documentation concerning how to run these regression tests and interpret
the results can be found in the PostgreSQL manual, in the chapter
"Regression Tests".