Record dependencies of a cast on other casts that it requires.
authorTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Mon, 17 Oct 2022 18:02:05 +0000 (14:02 -0400)
committerTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Mon, 17 Oct 2022 18:02:05 +0000 (14:02 -0400)
commit8272749e8ca1dbbcb5f8cf5632ec26a573ac3111
treeaeee7a1615af0d87b69db96f38d734e8d4782f70
parent797e313dc9aed83e28e9f1d08a281ea48c560cd2
Record dependencies of a cast on other casts that it requires.

When creating a cast that uses a conversion function, we've
historically allowed the input and result types to be
binary-compatible with the function's input and result types,
rather than necessarily being identical.  This means that the new
cast is logically dependent on the binary-compatible cast or casts
that it references: if those are defined by pg_cast entries, and you
try to restore the new cast without having defined them, it'll fail.
Hence, we should make pg_depend entries to record these dependencies
so that pg_dump knows that there is an ordering requirement.

This is not the only place where we allow such shortcuts; aggregate
functions for example are similarly lax, and in principle should gain
similar dependencies.  However, for now it seems sufficient to fix
the cast-versus-cast case, as pg_dump's other ordering heuristics
should keep it out of trouble for other object types.

Per report from David TuroĊˆ; thanks also to Robert Haas for
preliminary investigation.  I considered back-patching, but
seeing that this issue has existed for many years without
previous reports, it's not clear it's worth the trouble.
Moreover, back-patching wouldn't be enough to ensure that the
new pg_depend entries exist in existing databases anyway.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/OF0A160F3E.578B15D1-ONC12588DA.003E4857-C12588DA.0045A428@notes.linuxbox.cz
src/backend/catalog/pg_cast.c
src/backend/commands/functioncmds.c
src/backend/commands/typecmds.c
src/backend/parser/parse_coerce.c
src/include/catalog/pg_cast.h
src/include/parser/parse_coerce.h
src/test/regress/expected/create_cast.out
src/test/regress/sql/create_cast.sql
src/tools/valgrind.supp