Re: Dump-restore loosing 'attnotnull' bit for DEFERRABLE PRIMARY KEY column(s).

On Tue, 5 Mar 2024 at 12:36, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> wrote:
>
> Yeah. As I said upthread, a good fix seems to require no longer relying
> on RelationGetIndexAttrBitmap to obtain the columns in the primary key,
> because that function does not include deferred primary keys. I came up
> with the attached POC, which seems to fix the reported problem, but of
> course it needs more polish, a working test case, and verifying whether
> the new function should be used in more places -- in particular, whether
> it can be used to revert the changes to RelationGetIndexList that
> b0e96f311985 did.
>

Looking at the other places that call RelationGetIndexAttrBitmap()
with INDEX_ATTR_BITMAP_PRIMARY_KEY, they all appear to want to include
deferrable PKs, since they are relying on the result to see which
columns are not nullable.

So there are other bugs here. For example:

CREATE TABLE foo (id int PRIMARY KEY DEFERRABLE, val text);
CREATE TABLE bar (LIKE foo);

now fails to mark bar.id as not nullable, whereas prior to
b0e96f311985 it would have been.

So I think RelationGetIndexAttrBitmap() should include deferrable PKs,
but not all the changes made to RelationGetIndexList() by b0e96f311985
need reverting.

Regards,
Dean