Make equalTupleDescs() compare attlen/attbyval/attalign rather than

assuming comparison of atttypid is sufficient.  In a dropped column
atttypid will be 0, and we'd better check the physical-storage data
to make sure the tupdescs are physically compatible.
I do not believe there is a real risk before 8.0, since before that
we only used this routine to compare successive states of the tupdesc
for a particular relation.  But 8.0's typcache.c might be comparing
arbitrary tupdescs so we'd better play it safer.

diff --git a/src/backend/access/common/tupdesc.c b/src/backend/access/common/tupdesc.c
index fac8551dfd65a5a8d77706e6878636ec0749744e..fedc7ec4894f92c3e51c3dd375c566af75f19448 100644 (file)
--- a/src/backend/access/common/tupdesc.c
+++ b/src/backend/access/common/tupdesc.c
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
  *
  *
  * IDENTIFICATION
- *   $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/access/common/tupdesc.c,v 1.110 2005/03/31 22:46:04 tgl Exp $
+ *   $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/access/common/tupdesc.c,v 1.111 2005/04/14 22:34:48 tgl Exp $
  *
  * NOTES
  *   some of the executor utility code such as "ExecTypeFromTL" should be
@@ -274,10 +274,15 @@ equalTupleDescs(TupleDesc tupdesc1, TupleDesc tupdesc2)
 
        /*
         * We do not need to check every single field here: we can
-        * disregard attrelid, attnum (it was used to place the row in the
-        * attrs array) and everything derived from the column datatype.
-        * Also, attcacheoff must NOT be checked since it's possibly not
-        * set in both copies.
+        * disregard attrelid and attnum (which were used to place the row
+        * in the attrs array in the first place).  It might look like we
+        * could dispense with checking attlen/attbyval/attalign, since these
+        * are derived from atttypid; but in the case of dropped columns
+        * we must check them (since atttypid will be zero for all dropped
+        * columns) and in general it seems safer to check them always.
+        *
+        * attcacheoff must NOT be checked since it's possibly not set
+        * in both copies.
         */
        if (strcmp(NameStr(attr1->attname), NameStr(attr2->attname)) != 0)
            return false;
@@ -285,12 +290,18 @@ equalTupleDescs(TupleDesc tupdesc1, TupleDesc tupdesc2)
            return false;
        if (attr1->attstattarget != attr2->attstattarget)
            return false;
+       if (attr1->attlen != attr2->attlen)
+           return false;
        if (attr1->attndims != attr2->attndims)
            return false;
        if (attr1->atttypmod != attr2->atttypmod)
            return false;
+       if (attr1->attbyval != attr2->attbyval)
+           return false;
        if (attr1->attstorage != attr2->attstorage)
            return false;
+       if (attr1->attalign != attr2->attalign)
+           return false;
        if (attr1->attnotnull != attr2->attnotnull)
            return false;
        if (attr1->atthasdef != attr2->atthasdef)