On Fri, Oct 05, 2018 at 12:41:29PM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> On 2018-Oct-05, Michael Paquier wrote:
>> Looking at the stack trace there is this log in
>> validateForeignKeyConstraint:
>> ereport(DEBUG1,
>>         (errmsg("validating foreign key constraint \"%s\"", conname)));
>> 
>> However conname is set to NULL in this code path.
> 
> Ouch.  Thanks for catching this one.  I think the "this is all we need"
> comment is just asking for trouble :-(

Would you reformulate it?  Like, say, if new fields are needed perhaps
we could just say instead "XXX: make sure to update the list of fields
copied if a new partition-relation command needs it."

>> From what I can see the problem comes from CloneForeignKeyConstraint
>> which forgets to assign the constraint name when cloning the FK
>> definition.  While looking at the ATTACH PARTITION code, I have noticed
>> that a variable gets overridden, which is in my opinion bad style.
> 
> Ugh, yeah that looks bad.  I wish the compiler would warn about this :-(

Do you want me to take care of this one?  On this issue, I am way more
confident than the other thread for event triggers as I spent quite some
time on it.
--
Michael

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