Repair misbehavior with duplicate entries in FK SET column lists.

tglsfdc · tglsfdc · commit f5069f0264ee · 2025-04-04T20:11:48.000-04:00
Since v15 we've had an option to apply a foreign key constraint's ON DELETE SET DEFAULT or SET NULL action to just some of the referencing columns. There was not a check for duplicate entries in the list of columns-to-set, though. That caused a potential memory stomp in CreateConstraintEntry(), which incautiously assumed that the list of columns-to-set couldn't be longer than the number of key columns. Even after fixing that, the case doesn't work because you get an error like "multiple assignments to same column" from the SQL command that is generated to do the update. We could either raise an error for duplicate columns or silently suppress the dups, and after a bit of thought I chose to do the latter. This is motivated by the fact that duplicates in the FK column list are legal, so it's not real clear why duplicates in the columns-to-set list shouldn't be. Of course there's no need to actually set the column more than once. I left in the fix in CreateConstraintEntry() too, just because it didn't seem like such low-level code ought to be making assumptions about what it's handed. Bug: #18879 Reported-by: Yu Liang <luy70@psu.edu> Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18879-259fc59d072bd4d7@postgresql.org Backpatch-through: 15
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/pg_constraint.c b/src/backend/catalog/pg_constraint.c
@@ -121,8 +121,9 @@ CreateConstraintEntry(const char *constraintName,
 	if (foreignNKeys > 0)
 	{
 		Datum	   *fkdatums;
+		int			nkeys = Max(foreignNKeys, numFkDeleteSetCols);
 
-		fkdatums = (Datum *) palloc(foreignNKeys * sizeof(Datum));
+		fkdatums = (Datum *) palloc(nkeys * sizeof(Datum));
 		for (i = 0; i < foreignNKeys; i++)
 			fkdatums[i] = Int16GetDatum(foreignKey[i]);
 		confkeyArray = construct_array(fkdatums, foreignNKeys,
diff --git a/src/backend/commands/tablecmds.c b/src/backend/commands/tablecmds.c
@@ -497,8 +497,8 @@ static ObjectAddress ATAddForeignKeyConstraint(List **wqueue, AlteredTableInfo *
 											   Relation rel, Constraint *fkconstraint,
 											   bool recurse, bool recursing,
 											   LOCKMODE lockmode);
-static void validateFkOnDeleteSetColumns(int numfks, const int16 *fkattnums,
-										 int numfksetcols, const int16 *fksetcolsattnums,
+static int	validateFkOnDeleteSetColumns(int numfks, const int16 *fkattnums,
+										 int numfksetcols, int16 *fksetcolsattnums,
 										 List *fksetcols);
 static ObjectAddress addFkConstraint(addFkConstraintSides fkside,
 									 char *constraintname,
@@ -9309,9 +9309,10 @@ ATAddForeignKeyConstraint(List **wqueue, AlteredTableInfo *tab, Relation rel,
 	numfkdelsetcols = transformColumnNameList(RelationGetRelid(rel),
 											  fkconstraint->fk_del_set_cols,
 											  fkdelsetcols, NULL);
-	validateFkOnDeleteSetColumns(numfks, fkattnum,
-								 numfkdelsetcols, fkdelsetcols,
-								 fkconstraint->fk_del_set_cols);
+	numfkdelsetcols = validateFkOnDeleteSetColumns(numfks, fkattnum,
+												   numfkdelsetcols,
+												   fkdelsetcols,
+												   fkconstraint->fk_del_set_cols);
 
 	/*
 	 * If the attribute list for the referenced table was omitted, lookup the
@@ -9632,17 +9633,23 @@ ATAddForeignKeyConstraint(List **wqueue, AlteredTableInfo *tab, Relation rel,
  * validateFkOnDeleteSetColumns
  *		Verifies that columns used in ON DELETE SET NULL/DEFAULT (...)
  *		column lists are valid.
+ *
+ * If there are duplicates in the fksetcolsattnums[] array, this silently
+ * removes the dups.  The new count of numfksetcols is returned.
  */
-void
+static int
 validateFkOnDeleteSetColumns(int numfks, const int16 *fkattnums,
-							 int numfksetcols, const int16 *fksetcolsattnums,
+							 int numfksetcols, int16 *fksetcolsattnums,
 							 List *fksetcols)
 {
+	int			numcolsout = 0;
+
 	for (int i = 0; i < numfksetcols; i++)
 	{
 		int16		setcol_attnum = fksetcolsattnums[i];
 		bool		seen = false;
 
+		/* Make sure it's in fkattnums[] */
 		for (int j = 0; j < numfks; j++)
 		{
 			if (fkattnums[j] == setcol_attnum)
@@ -9660,7 +9667,21 @@ validateFkOnDeleteSetColumns(int numfks, const int16 *fkattnums,
 					(errcode(ERRCODE_INVALID_COLUMN_REFERENCE),
 					 errmsg("column \"%s\" referenced in ON DELETE SET action must be part of foreign key", col)));
 		}
+
+		/* Now check for dups */
+		seen = false;
+		for (int j = 0; j < numcolsout; j++)
+		{
+			if (fksetcolsattnums[j] == setcol_attnum)
+			{
+				seen = true;
+				break;
+			}
+		}
+		if (!seen)
+			fksetcolsattnums[numcolsout++] = setcol_attnum;
 	}
+	return numcolsout;
 }
 
 /*
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/foreign_key.out b/src/test/regress/expected/foreign_key.out
@@ -772,7 +772,8 @@ CREATE TABLE FKTABLE (
   fk_id_del_set_null int,
   fk_id_del_set_default int DEFAULT 0,
   FOREIGN KEY (tid, fk_id_del_set_null) REFERENCES PKTABLE ON DELETE SET NULL (fk_id_del_set_null),
-  FOREIGN KEY (tid, fk_id_del_set_default) REFERENCES PKTABLE ON DELETE SET DEFAULT (fk_id_del_set_default)
+  -- this tests handling of duplicate entries in SET DEFAULT column list
+  FOREIGN KEY (tid, fk_id_del_set_default) REFERENCES PKTABLE ON DELETE SET DEFAULT (fk_id_del_set_default, fk_id_del_set_default)
 );
 SELECT pg_get_constraintdef(oid) FROM pg_constraint WHERE conrelid = 'fktable'::regclass::oid ORDER BY oid;
                                                 pg_get_constraintdef                                                
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/foreign_key.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/foreign_key.sql
@@ -473,7 +473,8 @@ CREATE TABLE FKTABLE (
   fk_id_del_set_null int,
   fk_id_del_set_default int DEFAULT 0,
   FOREIGN KEY (tid, fk_id_del_set_null) REFERENCES PKTABLE ON DELETE SET NULL (fk_id_del_set_null),
-  FOREIGN KEY (tid, fk_id_del_set_default) REFERENCES PKTABLE ON DELETE SET DEFAULT (fk_id_del_set_default)
+  -- this tests handling of duplicate entries in SET DEFAULT column list
+  FOREIGN KEY (tid, fk_id_del_set_default) REFERENCES PKTABLE ON DELETE SET DEFAULT (fk_id_del_set_default, fk_id_del_set_default)
 );
 
 SELECT pg_get_constraintdef(oid) FROM pg_constraint WHERE conrelid = 'fktable'::regclass::oid ORDER BY oid;
