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-rw-r--r--doc/src/sgml/bki.sgml5
-rw-r--r--src/backend/catalog/indexing.c45
2 files changed, 46 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/bki.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/bki.sgml
index 6776c4a3c18..4e7568f5ce9 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/bki.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/bki.sgml
@@ -122,10 +122,7 @@
if they are fixed-width and are not preceded by any nullable column.
Where this rule is inadequate, you can force correct marking by using
<literal>BKI_FORCE_NOT_NULL</literal>
- and <literal>BKI_FORCE_NULL</literal> annotations as needed. But note
- that <literal>NOT NULL</literal> constraints are only enforced in the
- executor, not against tuples that are generated by random C code,
- so care is still needed when manually creating or updating catalog rows.
+ and <literal>BKI_FORCE_NULL</literal> annotations as needed.
</para>
<para>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/indexing.c b/src/backend/catalog/indexing.c
index d63fcf58cf1..fe277f3ad37 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/indexing.c
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/indexing.c
@@ -168,6 +168,43 @@ CatalogIndexInsert(CatalogIndexState indstate, HeapTuple heapTuple)
}
/*
+ * Subroutine to verify that catalog constraints are honored.
+ *
+ * Tuples inserted via CatalogTupleInsert/CatalogTupleUpdate are generally
+ * "hand made", so that it's possible that they fail to satisfy constraints
+ * that would be checked if they were being inserted by the executor. That's
+ * a coding error, so we only bother to check for it in assert-enabled builds.
+ */
+#ifdef USE_ASSERT_CHECKING
+
+static void
+CatalogTupleCheckConstraints(Relation heapRel, HeapTuple tup)
+{
+ /*
+ * Currently, the only constraints implemented for system catalogs are
+ * attnotnull constraints.
+ */
+ if (HeapTupleHasNulls(tup))
+ {
+ TupleDesc tupdesc = RelationGetDescr(heapRel);
+ bits8 *bp = tup->t_data->t_bits;
+
+ for (int attnum = 0; attnum < tupdesc->natts; attnum++)
+ {
+ Form_pg_attribute thisatt = TupleDescAttr(tupdesc, attnum);
+
+ Assert(!(thisatt->attnotnull && att_isnull(attnum, bp)));
+ }
+ }
+}
+
+#else /* !USE_ASSERT_CHECKING */
+
+#define CatalogTupleCheckConstraints(heapRel, tup) ((void) 0)
+
+#endif /* USE_ASSERT_CHECKING */
+
+/*
* CatalogTupleInsert - do heap and indexing work for a new catalog tuple
*
* Insert the tuple data in "tup" into the specified catalog relation.
@@ -184,6 +221,8 @@ CatalogTupleInsert(Relation heapRel, HeapTuple tup)
{
CatalogIndexState indstate;
+ CatalogTupleCheckConstraints(heapRel, tup);
+
indstate = CatalogOpenIndexes(heapRel);
simple_heap_insert(heapRel, tup);
@@ -204,6 +243,8 @@ void
CatalogTupleInsertWithInfo(Relation heapRel, HeapTuple tup,
CatalogIndexState indstate)
{
+ CatalogTupleCheckConstraints(heapRel, tup);
+
simple_heap_insert(heapRel, tup);
CatalogIndexInsert(indstate, tup);
@@ -225,6 +266,8 @@ CatalogTupleUpdate(Relation heapRel, ItemPointer otid, HeapTuple tup)
{
CatalogIndexState indstate;
+ CatalogTupleCheckConstraints(heapRel, tup);
+
indstate = CatalogOpenIndexes(heapRel);
simple_heap_update(heapRel, otid, tup);
@@ -245,6 +288,8 @@ void
CatalogTupleUpdateWithInfo(Relation heapRel, ItemPointer otid, HeapTuple tup,
CatalogIndexState indstate)
{
+ CatalogTupleCheckConstraints(heapRel, tup);
+
simple_heap_update(heapRel, otid, tup);
CatalogIndexInsert(indstate, tup);