Repair misbehavior with duplicate entries in FK SET column lists.

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 <[email protected]>
Author: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/[email protected]
Backpatch-through: 15

1 files changed, 28 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/tablecmds.c b/src/backend/commands/tablecmds.c
index 11fcb51a165..4397123398e 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/tablecmds.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/tablecmds.c
@@ -557,8 +557,8 @@ 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,
@@ -10037,9 +10037,10 @@ ATAddForeignKeyConstraint(List **wqueue, AlteredTableInfo *tab, Relation rel,
 	numfkdelsetcols = transformColumnNameList(RelationGetRelid(rel),
 											  fkconstraint->fk_del_set_cols,
 											  fkdelsetcols, NULL, 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
@@ -10499,17 +10500,23 @@ 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)
@@ -10527,7 +10534,21 @@ 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;
 }
 
 /*