Prevent altering partitioned table's rowtype, if it's used elsewhere.
authorTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Thu, 6 Jan 2022 21:46:46 +0000 (16:46 -0500)
committerTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Thu, 6 Jan 2022 21:46:46 +0000 (16:46 -0500)
commit86d4bbb56a8aa94e8926067a5bf86a5a74b8c933
treeeaf608f9dcdb651d7cad603954a7ab69f7213b81
parent1105efdc1bba91a60551feae0342ba5973fa69ba
Prevent altering partitioned table's rowtype, if it's used elsewhere.

We disallow altering a column datatype within a regular table,
if the table's rowtype is used as a column type elsewhere,
because we lack code to go around and rewrite the other tables.
This restriction should apply to partitioned tables as well, but it
was not checked because ATRewriteTables and ATPrepAlterColumnType
were not on the same page about who should do it for which relkinds.

Per bug #17351 from Alexander Lakhin.  Back-patch to all supported
branches.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17351-6db1870f3f4f612a@postgresql.org
src/backend/commands/tablecmds.c
src/test/regress/expected/alter_table.out
src/test/regress/sql/alter_table.sql