Re: BUG #15446: Crash on ALTER TABLE

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: Dean Rasheed <dean(dot)a(dot)rasheed(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Dmitry Molotkov <aldarund(at)gmail(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, pgsql-bugs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: BUG #15446: Crash on ALTER TABLE
Date: 2019-01-05 17:09:40
Message-ID: 20190105170940.2qrbilpxmmxyf4tr@alap3.anarazel.de
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Hi,

On 2019-01-05 12:11:45 +0000, Dean Rasheed wrote:
> It looks like the problem was introduced in PG11 by 16828d5c02 (Fast
> ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN with a non-NULL default). The first ALTER TABLE
> adds a new column with a non-null default, setting atthasmissing and
> attmissingval. Then the second ALTER TABLE changes the type of the new
> column, but it fails to update attmissingval to match, and thus it
> falls over when trying to re-open the relation because the value in
> attmissingval is no longer compatible with the attribute type.

Paging Dr Dunstan.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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