Re: Busted(?) optimization in ATAddForeignKeyConstraint

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Busted(?) optimization in ATAddForeignKeyConstraint
Date: 2020-01-24 10:17:08
Message-ID: da7da2f6-bb58-d271-1a5e-feb31ad5282b@2ndquadrant.com
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On 2020-01-24 01:21, Thomas Munro wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 11:12 AM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> I happened to notice this comment in the logic in
>> ATAddForeignKeyConstraint that tries to decide if it can skip
>> revalidating a foreign-key constraint after a DDL change:
>>
>> * Since we require that all collations share the same notion of
>> * equality (which they do, because texteq reduces to bitwise
>> * equality), we don't compare collation here.
>>
>> Hasn't this been broken by the introduction of nondeterministic
>> collations?
>
> Similar words appear in the comment for ri_GenerateQualCollation().

The calls to this function are all conditional on
!get_collation_isdeterministic(). The comment should perhaps be changed.

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