Remove undocumented restriction against duplicate partition key columns.

tglsfdc · tglsfdc · commit 24097167558b · 2018-07-19T15:41:46.000-04:00
transformPartitionSpec rejected duplicate simple partition columns (e.g., "PARTITION BY RANGE (x,x)") but paid no attention to expression columns, resulting in inconsistent behavior. Worse, cases like "PARTITION BY RANGE (x,(x))") were accepted but would then result in dump/reload failures, since the expression (x) would get simplified to a plain column later. There seems no better reason for this restriction than there was for the one against duplicate included index columns (cf commit 701fd0b), so let's just remove it. Back-patch to v10 where this code was added. Report and patch by Yugo Nagata. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180712165939.36b12aff.nagata@sraoss.co.jp
diff --git a/src/backend/commands/tablecmds.c b/src/backend/commands/tablecmds.c
@@ -13628,21 +13628,6 @@ transformPartitionSpec(Relation rel, PartitionSpec *partspec, char *strategy)
 	foreach(l, partspec->partParams)
 	{
 		PartitionElem *pelem = castNode(PartitionElem, lfirst(l));
-		ListCell   *lc;
-
-		/* Check for PARTITION BY ... (foo, foo) */
-		foreach(lc, newspec->partParams)
-		{
-			PartitionElem *pparam = castNode(PartitionElem, lfirst(lc));
-
-			if (pelem->name && pparam->name &&
-				strcmp(pelem->name, pparam->name) == 0)
-				ereport(ERROR,
-						(errcode(ERRCODE_DUPLICATE_COLUMN),
-						 errmsg("column \"%s\" appears more than once in partition key",
-								pelem->name),
-						 parser_errposition(pstate, pelem->location)));
-		}
 
 		if (pelem->expr)
 		{
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/create_table.out b/src/test/regress/expected/create_table.out
@@ -288,11 +288,6 @@ CREATE TABLE partitioned (
 ERROR:  exclusion constraints are not supported on partitioned tables
 LINE 3:  EXCLUDE USING gist (a WITH &&)
          ^
--- prevent column from being used twice in the partition key
-CREATE TABLE partitioned (
-	a int
-) PARTITION BY RANGE (a, a);
-ERROR:  column "a" appears more than once in partition key
 -- prevent using prohibited expressions in the key
 CREATE FUNCTION retset (a int) RETURNS SETOF int AS $$ SELECT 1; $$ LANGUAGE SQL IMMUTABLE;
 CREATE TABLE partitioned (
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/create_table.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/create_table.sql
@@ -303,11 +303,6 @@ CREATE TABLE partitioned (
 	EXCLUDE USING gist (a WITH &&)
 ) PARTITION BY RANGE (a);
 
--- prevent column from being used twice in the partition key
-CREATE TABLE partitioned (
-	a int
-) PARTITION BY RANGE (a, a);
-
 -- prevent using prohibited expressions in the key
 CREATE FUNCTION retset (a int) RETURNS SETOF int AS $$ SELECT 1; $$ LANGUAGE SQL IMMUTABLE;
 CREATE TABLE partitioned (
