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-rw-r--r--src/backend/catalog/heap.c41
-rw-r--r--src/backend/rewrite/rewriteDefine.c11
2 files changed, 50 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/heap.c b/src/backend/catalog/heap.c
index 6edd11fb986..8818b680c8b 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/heap.c
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/heap.c
@@ -1435,6 +1435,47 @@ DeleteAttributeTuples(Oid relid)
}
/*
+ * DeleteSystemAttributeTuples
+ *
+ * Remove pg_attribute rows for system columns of the given relid.
+ *
+ * Note: this is only used when converting a table to a view. Views don't
+ * have system columns, so we should remove them from pg_attribute.
+ */
+void
+DeleteSystemAttributeTuples(Oid relid)
+{
+ Relation attrel;
+ SysScanDesc scan;
+ ScanKeyData key[2];
+ HeapTuple atttup;
+
+ /* Grab an appropriate lock on the pg_attribute relation */
+ attrel = heap_open(AttributeRelationId, RowExclusiveLock);
+
+ /* Use the index to scan only system attributes of the target relation */
+ ScanKeyInit(&key[0],
+ Anum_pg_attribute_attrelid,
+ BTEqualStrategyNumber, F_OIDEQ,
+ ObjectIdGetDatum(relid));
+ ScanKeyInit(&key[1],
+ Anum_pg_attribute_attnum,
+ BTLessEqualStrategyNumber, F_INT2LE,
+ Int16GetDatum(0));
+
+ scan = systable_beginscan(attrel, AttributeRelidNumIndexId, true,
+ SnapshotNow, 2, key);
+
+ /* Delete all the matching tuples */
+ while ((atttup = systable_getnext(scan)) != NULL)
+ simple_heap_delete(attrel, &atttup->t_self);
+
+ /* Clean up after the scan */
+ systable_endscan(scan);
+ heap_close(attrel, RowExclusiveLock);
+}
+
+/*
* RemoveAttributeById
*
* This is the guts of ALTER TABLE DROP COLUMN: actually mark the attribute
diff --git a/src/backend/rewrite/rewriteDefine.c b/src/backend/rewrite/rewriteDefine.c
index 8efc9fc9d52..55b0fed5f79 100644
--- a/src/backend/rewrite/rewriteDefine.c
+++ b/src/backend/rewrite/rewriteDefine.c
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
#include "access/htup_details.h"
#include "catalog/catalog.h"
#include "catalog/dependency.h"
+#include "catalog/heap.h"
#include "catalog/indexing.h"
#include "catalog/namespace.h"
#include "catalog/objectaccess.h"
@@ -510,13 +511,19 @@ DefineQueryRewrite(char *rulename,
}
/*
- * IF the relation is becoming a view, delete the storage files associated
- * with it. NB: we had better have AccessExclusiveLock to do this ...
+ * If the relation is becoming a view, delete the storage files associated
+ * with it. Also, get rid of any system attribute entries in pg_attribute,
+ * because a view shouldn't have any of those.
+ *
+ * NB: we had better have AccessExclusiveLock to do this ...
*
* XXX what about getting rid of its TOAST table? For now, we don't.
*/
if (RelisBecomingView)
+ {
RelationDropStorage(event_relation);
+ DeleteSystemAttributeTuples(event_relid);
+ }
/* Close rel, but keep lock till commit... */
heap_close(event_relation, NoLock);