Re: BUG #17220: ALTER INDEX ALTER COLUMN SET (..) with an optionless opclass makes index and table unusable

From: "Bossart, Nathan" <bossartn(at)amazon(dot)com>
To: Vik Fearing <vik(at)postgresfriends(dot)org>, "postgresql(at)zr40(dot)nl" <postgresql(at)zr40(dot)nl>, Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: BUG #17220: ALTER INDEX ALTER COLUMN SET (..) with an optionless opclass makes index and table unusable
Date: 2021-10-13 00:06:32
Message-ID: E29EF33B-CA1A-4146-BFCF-C8EC08FB91A8@amazon.com
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On 10/11/21, 11:03 AM, "Vik Fearing" <vik(at)postgresfriends(dot)org> wrote:
> On 10/11/21 5:25 PM, PG Bug reporting form wrote:
>>
>> User 'musttu' on IRC reported the following bug: After running "ALTER INDEX
>> some_idx ALTER COLUMN expr SET (n_distinct=100)", the index and table become
>> unusable. All further statements involving the table result in: "ERROR:
>> operator class text_ops has no options".
>>
>> They reported this on the RDS version of 13.3, but I've been able to
>> reproduce this on Debian with 13.4 and 14.0. It does not reproduce on 12.8,
>> all statements succeed on that version.
>
> This was broken by 911e702077 (Implement operator class parameters).

Moving to pgsql-hackers(at)(dot)

At first glance, it looks like ALTER INDEX .. ALTER COLUMN ... SET
uses the wrong validation function. I've attached a patch where I've
attempted to fix that and added some tests.

Nathan

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alter_index_column_set_validation.patch application/octet-stream 4.1 KB

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