How about this patch?
Of course, it might be a rare case that such check is necessary...
Toru SHIMOGAKI wrote:
> The following bug has been logged online:
>
> Bug reference: 2704
> Logged by: Toru SHIMOGAKI
> Email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> PostgreSQL version: 8.1.4
> Operating system: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 4
> Description: pg_class.relchecks overflow problem
> Details:
>
> Hi,
>
> pg_class.relchecks is defined as int2. But the upper bound of this value is
> not checked and it overflows.
>
>
> I found it at the following case:
>
> 1. I tried to add check constraints:
>
> "alter table test_a add check (aaa > i);" (0 <= i <= 32767)
>
>
> 2. When I added the 32768th check constraint, the value of pg_class.relchecs
> became -32768.
>
> postgres=# alter table test_a add check ( aaa > 32768 );
> ALTER TABLE
> postgres=# select relname, relchecks from pg_class where relname =
> 'test_a';
> relname | relchecks
> ---------+-----------
> test_a | -32768
> (1 row)
>
>
> 3. The following error message was found when I added the next one:
>
> postgres=# alter table test_a add check ( aaa > 32769 );
> ERROR: unexpected constraint record found for rel test_a
> postgres=# select relname, relchecks from pg_class where relname =
> 'test_a';
> relname | relchecks
> ---------+-----------
> test_a | -32768
> (1 row)
>
>
> Best regards,
>
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diff -cpr postgresql-8.1.5-orig/src/backend/catalog/heap.c
postgresql-8.1.5/src/backend/catalog/heap.c
*** postgresql-8.1.5-orig/src/backend/catalog/heap.c 2006-04-24
10:40:39.000000000 +0900
--- postgresql-8.1.5/src/backend/catalog/heap.c 2006-10-23 16:50:22.000000000
+0900
*************** AddRelationRawConstraints(Relation rel,
*** 1525,1530 ****
--- 1525,1535 ----
continue;
Assert(cdef->cooked_expr == NULL);
+ if (numchecks == 0x7FFF)
+ ereport(ERROR,
+
(errcode(ERRCODE_PROGRAM_LIMIT_EXCEEDED),
+ errmsg("cannot have more than 2^15-1 checks in a
table")));
+
/*
* Transform raw parsetree to executable expression.
*/
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