postgresql/src
Tom Lane 58958726ff Change FK trigger creation order to better support self-referential FKs.
When a foreign-key constraint references another column of the same table,
row updates will queue both the PK's ON UPDATE action and the FK's CHECK
action in the same event.  The ON UPDATE action must execute first, else
the CHECK will check a non-final state of the row and possibly throw an
inappropriate error, as seen in bug #6268 from Roman Lytovchenko.

Now, the firing order of multiple triggers for the same event is determined
by the sort order of their pg_trigger.tgnames, and the auto-generated names
we use for FK triggers are "RI_ConstraintTrigger_NNNN" where NNNN is the
trigger OID.  So most of the time the firing order is the same as creation
order, and so rearranging the creation order fixes it.

This patch will fail to fix the problem if the OID counter wraps around or
adds a decimal digit (eg, from 99999 to 100000) while we are creating the
triggers for an FK constraint.  Given the small odds of that, and the low
usage of self-referential FKs, we'll live with that solution in the back
branches.  A better fix is to change the auto-generated names for FK
triggers, but it seems unwise to do that in stable branches because there
may be client code that depends on the naming convention.  We'll fix it
that way in HEAD in a separate patch.

Back-patch to all supported branches, since this bug has existed for a long
time.
2011-10-26 13:02:28 -04:00
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backend Change FK trigger creation order to better support self-referential FKs. 2011-10-26 13:02:28 -04:00
bin Remove argument decoration that appears unsupported on mingw 2011-10-25 21:30:53 +02:00
include Don't trust deferred-unique indexes for join removal. 2011-10-23 00:43:39 -04:00
interfaces Suppress remaining -Waddress warnings from recent gcc versions. 2011-10-18 21:44:23 -04:00
makefiles Fix pgxs.mk to always add --dbname=$(CONTRIB_TESTDB) to REGRESS_OPTS. 2011-08-24 15:16:50 -04:00
pl Fix up Perl-to-Postgres datatype conversions in pl/perl. 2011-10-13 18:04:40 -04:00
port Fix typo in pg_srand48 (srand48 in older branches). 2011-09-03 16:17:34 -04:00
template Remove cvs keywords from all files. 2010-09-20 22:08:53 +02:00
test Change FK trigger creation order to better support self-referential FKs. 2011-10-26 13:02:28 -04:00
timezone Simplify handling of the timezone GUC by making initdb choose the default. 2011-09-09 17:59:11 -04:00
tools Improve git_changelog's handling of inconsistent commit orderings. 2011-10-23 14:34:36 -04:00
tutorial Stamp copyrights for year 2011. 2011-01-01 13:18:15 -05:00
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DEVELOPERS Replace a couple of references to files that no longer exist in the source 2009-05-04 08:08:47 +00:00
Makefile Fix some oversights in distprep and maintainer-clean targets. 2011-03-10 00:04:05 -05:00
Makefile.global.in Make distprep and *clean build targets recurse into all subdirectories. 2011-07-03 13:55:12 -04:00
Makefile.shlib Use single quotes in preference to double quotes for protecting pathnames. 2011-06-15 21:45:23 -04:00
nls-global.mk Add the possibility to pass --flag arguments to xgettext calls 2011-06-27 00:37:21 +03:00
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