postgresql/src/test
Tom Lane dd705a039f Disallow converting an inheritance child table to a view.
Generally, members of inheritance trees must be plain tables (or,
in more recent versions, foreign tables).  ALTER TABLE INHERIT
rejects creating an inheritance relationship that has a view at
either end.  When DefineQueryRewrite attempts to convert a relation
to a view, it already had checks prohibiting doing so for partitioning
parents or children as well as traditional-inheritance parents ...
but it neglected to check that a traditional-inheritance child wasn't
being converted.  Since the planner assumes that any inheritance
child is a table, this led to making plans that tried to do a physical
scan on a view, causing failures (or even crashes, in recent versions).

One could imagine trying to support such a case by expanding the view
normally, but since the rewriter runs before the planner does
inheritance expansion, it would take some very fundamental refactoring
to make that possible.  There are probably a lot of other parts of the
system that don't cope well with such a situation, too.  For now,
just forbid it.

Per bug #16856 from Yang Lin.  Back-patch to all supported branches.
(In versions before v10, this includes back-patching the portion of
commit 501ed02cf that added has_superclass().  Perhaps the lack of
that infrastructure partially explains the missing check.)

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16856-0363e05c6e1612fd@postgresql.org
2021-02-06 15:17:01 -05:00
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authentication Update copyright for 2021 2021-01-02 13:06:25 -05:00
examples Avoid redundantly prefixing PQerrorMessage for a connection failure. 2021-01-22 16:52:31 -05:00
isolation Fix CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY for simultaneous prepared transactions. 2021-01-30 00:00:27 -08:00
kerberos Don't clobber the calling user's credentials cache in Kerberos test. 2021-01-25 14:53:13 -05:00
ldap Update copyright for 2021 2021-01-02 13:06:25 -05:00
locale Clean up after tests in src/test/locale/. 2020-11-28 16:08:36 -05:00
mb Fix MB regression tests for WAL-logging of hash indexes. 2017-03-15 07:25:36 -04:00
modules Introduce --with-ssl={openssl} as a configure option 2021-02-01 19:19:44 +09:00
perl Update copyright for 2021 2021-01-02 13:06:25 -05:00
recovery Stabilize timeline switch regression test. 2021-01-14 23:55:33 +09:00
regress Disallow converting an inheritance child table to a view. 2021-02-06 15:17:01 -05:00
ssl Introduce --with-ssl={openssl} as a configure option 2021-02-01 19:19:44 +09:00
subscription Fix error with CREATE PUBLICATION, wal_level=minimal, and new tables. 2021-01-30 00:11:38 -08:00
Makefile Introduce --with-ssl={openssl} as a configure option 2021-02-01 19:19:44 +09:00
README Remove the option to build thread_test.c outside configure. 2020-10-21 12:08:48 -04:00

PostgreSQL tests
================

This directory contains a variety of test infrastructure as well as some of the
tests in PostgreSQL. Not all tests are here -- in particular, there are more in
individual contrib/ modules and in src/bin.

Not all these tests get run by "make check". Check src/test/Makefile to see
which tests get run automatically.

authentication/
  Tests for authentication (but see also below)

examples/
  Demonstration programs for libpq that double as regression tests via
  "make check"

isolation/
  Tests for concurrent behavior at the SQL level

kerberos/
  Tests for Kerberos/GSSAPI authentication and encryption

ldap/
  Tests for LDAP-based authentication

locale/
  Sanity checks for locale data, encodings, etc

mb/
  Tests for multibyte encoding (UTF-8) support

modules/
  Extensions used only or mainly for test purposes, generally not suitable
  for installing in production databases

perl/
  Infrastructure for Perl-based TAP tests

recovery/
  Test suite for recovery and replication

regress/
  PostgreSQL's main regression test suite, pg_regress

ssl/
  Tests to exercise and verify SSL certificate handling

subscription/
  Tests for logical replication