Refuse ATTACH of a table referenced by a foreign key
authorAlvaro Herrera
Thu, 8 Aug 2024 23:35:13 +0000 (19:35 -0400)
committerAlvaro Herrera
Thu, 8 Aug 2024 23:35:13 +0000 (19:35 -0400)
commita90bdd7a44d088a10b2faf5d7cdb85b8e4f0c662
treea1124cb4c67f9dd3eefc7f924e57e8df7136f092
parent498ee9ee2f4bc7d79f2d91cdd817b2a8f14a664f
Refuse ATTACH of a table referenced by a foreign key

Trying to attach a table as a partition which is already on the
referenced side of a foreign key on the partitioned table that it is
being attached to, leads to strange behavior: we try to clone the
foreign key from the parent to the partition, but this new FK points to
the partition itself, and the mix of pg_constraint rows and triggers
doesn't behave well.

Rather than trying to untangle the mess (which might be possible given
sufficient time), I opted to forbid the ATTACH.  This doesn't seem a
problematic restriction, given that we already fail to create the
foreign key if you do it the other way around, that is, having the
partition first and the FK second.

Backpatch to all supported branches.

Reported-by: Alexander Lakhin
Reviewed-by: Tender Wang
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18541-628a61bc267cd2d3@postgresql.org
src/backend/commands/tablecmds.c
src/test/regress/expected/foreign_key.out
src/test/regress/sql/foreign_key.sql