postgresql/src/test
Tom Lane 3b671dcf53 Fix type-checking of RECORD-returning functions in FROM.
In the corner case where a function returning RECORD has been
simplified to a RECORD constant or an inlined ROW() expression,
ExecInitFunctionScan failed to cross-check the function's result
rowtype against the coldeflist provided by the calling query.
That happened because get_expr_result_type is able to extract a
tupdesc from such expressions, which led ExecInitFunctionScan to
ignore the coldeflist.  (Instead, it used the extracted tupdesc
to check the function's output, which of course always succeeds.)

I have not been able to demonstrate any really serious consequences
from this, because if some column of the result is of the wrong
type and is directly referenced by a Var of the calling query,
CheckVarSlotCompatibility will catch it.  However, we definitely do
fail to report the case where the function returns more columns than
the coldeflist expects, and in the converse case where it returns
fewer columns, we get an assert failure (but, seemingly, no worse
results in non-assert builds).

To fix, always build the expected tupdesc from the coldeflist if there
is one, and consult get_expr_result_type only when there isn't one.

Also remove the failing Assert, even though it is no longer reached
after this fix.  It doesn't seem to be adding anything useful, since
later checking will deal with cases with the wrong number of columns.

The only other place I could find that is doing something similar
is inline_set_returning_function.  There's no live bug there because
we cannot be looking at a Const or RowExpr, but for consistency
change that code to agree with ExecInitFunctionScan.

Per report from PetSerAl.  After some debate I've concluded that
this should be back-patched.  There is a small risk that somebody
has been relying on such a case not throwing an error, but I judge
this outweighed by the risk that I've missed some way in which the
failure to cross-check has worse consequences than sketched above.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKygsHSerA1eXsJHR9wft3Gn3wfHQ5RfP8XHBzF70_qcrrRvEg@mail.gmail.com
2024-03-06 14:41:13 -05:00
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authentication Replace Test::More plans with done_testing 2022-02-11 20:54:44 +01:00
examples Update copyright for 2022 2022-01-07 19:04:57 -05:00
icu Fix icu tests with C locale 2022-09-19 15:39:49 -04:00
isolation Fix assertions with RI triggers in heap_update and heap_delete. 2023-11-28 11:59:50 +02:00
kerberos For Kerberos testing, disable DNS lookups 2023-04-07 19:36:25 -04:00
ldap tests: Prevent syslog activity by slapd, take 2 2023-03-16 23:17:17 -07:00
locale pycodestyle (PEP 8) cleanup in Python scripts 2022-03-09 10:54:20 +01:00
mb Fix MB regression tests for WAL-logging of hash indexes. 2017-03-15 07:25:36 -04:00
modules Allow new role 'regress_dump_login_role' to log in under SSPI. 2023-11-14 00:31:39 -05:00
perl Don't trust unvalidated xl_tot_len. 2023-09-23 10:28:12 +12:00
recovery Fix edge-case for xl_tot_len broken by bae868ca. 2023-09-26 10:54:02 +13:00
regress Fix type-checking of RECORD-returning functions in FROM. 2024-03-06 14:41:13 -05:00
ssl Use BIO_{get,set}_app_data instead of BIO_{get,set}_data. 2023-11-28 12:34:03 -05:00
subscription Back-patch test modifications that were done as part of b6df0798a5. 2024-02-26 09:17:28 +05:30
Makefile Add option to use ICU as global locale provider 2022-03-17 11:13:16 +01:00
README Remove the option to build thread_test.c outside configure. 2020-10-21 12:08:48 -04:00

PostgreSQL tests
================

This directory contains a variety of test infrastructure as well as some of the
tests in PostgreSQL. Not all tests are here -- in particular, there are more in
individual contrib/ modules and in src/bin.

Not all these tests get run by "make check". Check src/test/Makefile to see
which tests get run automatically.

authentication/
  Tests for authentication (but see also below)

examples/
  Demonstration programs for libpq that double as regression tests via
  "make check"

isolation/
  Tests for concurrent behavior at the SQL level

kerberos/
  Tests for Kerberos/GSSAPI authentication and encryption

ldap/
  Tests for LDAP-based authentication

locale/
  Sanity checks for locale data, encodings, etc

mb/
  Tests for multibyte encoding (UTF-8) support

modules/
  Extensions used only or mainly for test purposes, generally not suitable
  for installing in production databases

perl/
  Infrastructure for Perl-based TAP tests

recovery/
  Test suite for recovery and replication

regress/
  PostgreSQL's main regression test suite, pg_regress

ssl/
  Tests to exercise and verify SSL certificate handling

subscription/
  Tests for logical replication