postgresql/src/test
Tom Lane 3442235f2a Disallow changing an inherited column's type if not all parents changed.
If a table inherits from multiple unrelated parents, we must disallow
changing the type of a column inherited from multiple such parents, else
it would be out of step with the other parents.  However, it's possible
for the column to ultimately be inherited from just one common ancestor,
in which case a change starting from that ancestor should still be
allowed.  (I would not be excited about preserving that option, were
it not that we have regression test cases exercising it already ...)

It's slightly annoying that this patch looks different from the logic
with the same end goal in renameatt(), and more annoying that it
requires an extra syscache lookup to make the test.  However, the
recursion logic is quite different in the two functions, and a
back-patched bug fix is no place to be trying to unify them.

Per report from Manuel Rigger.  Back-patch to 9.5.  The bug exists in
9.4 too (and doubtless much further back); but the way the recursion
is done in 9.4 is a good bit different, so that substantial refactoring
would be needed to fix it in 9.4.  I'm disinclined to do that, or risk
introducing new bugs, for a bug that has escaped notice for this long.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+u7OA4qogDv9rz1HAb-ADxttXYPqQdUdPY_yd4kCzywNxRQXA@mail.gmail.com
2019-08-18 17:11:58 -04:00
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examples Client-side fixes for delayed NOTIFY receipt. 2018-10-19 22:22:57 -04:00
isolation Fix predicate-locking of HOT updated rows. 2019-08-07 12:41:26 +03:00
locale Add a temp-install prerequisite to "check"-like targets not having one. 2017-11-05 18:52:38 -08:00
mb Revert "Fix broken multibyte regression tests." 2016-01-26 08:29:15 +09:00
modules Solve cross-version-upgrade testing problem induced by 1fb57af92. 2019-02-09 21:02:06 -05:00
perl Consolidate methods for translating a Perl path to a Windows path. 2019-06-21 20:59:38 -07:00
recovery Fix failure with pgperlcritic from the TAP test of synchronous replication 2019-07-25 07:55:43 +09:00
regress Disallow changing an inherited column's type if not all parents changed. 2019-08-18 17:11:58 -04:00
ssl Fix searchpath and module location for pg_rewind and ssl TAP tests 2019-02-07 11:10:34 -05:00
thread Update copyright for 2016 2016-01-02 13:33:40 -05:00
Makefile Install TAP test infrastructure so it's available for extension testing. 2016-09-23 15:50:00 -04:00
README Minor tweaks for new src/test/recovery 2016-02-29 18:16:59 -03:00

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.

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

isolation/
  Tests for concurrent behavior at the SQL level

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

thread/
  A thread-safety-testing utility used by configure