Re: bug with expression index on partition

On 2018/06/23 5:54, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> On 2018-Jun-21, Amit Langote wrote:
>
>> On 2018/06/21 15:35, Amit Langote wrote:
>>> So, CompareIndexInfo and generateClonedIndexStmt are both doing the right
>>> thing, but DefineIndex is not. Attached is a patch to fix DefineIndex so
>>> that it converts indexParams before recursing to create the index on a
>>> partition.
>>
>> I noticed that while CompareIndexInfo and generateClonedIndexStmt would
>> reject the case where index expressions contain a whole-row Var, my patch
>> didn't teach to do the same to DefineIndex, causing asymmetric behavior.
>> So, whereas ATTACH PARTITION would error out when trying to clone a
>> parent's index that contains a whole-row Var, recursively creating an
>> index on partition won't.
>>
>> I updated the patch so that even DefineIndex will check if any whole-row
>> Vars were encountered during conversion and error out if so.
>
> Thanks. I pushed this version, although I tweaked the test so that this
> condition is verified in the test that is supposed to do so, rather than
> creating a whole new set of tables for this purpose. The way it would
> fail with unpatched code is perhaps less noisy that what you proposed,
> but I think it's quite enough.

Thanks. The test changes you committed seem fine.

Regards,
Amit