|Subject: Postgres patch: Assert attribute type match

|
|Here's a patch for Version 2 only.  It just adds an Assert to catch some
|inconsistencies in the catalog classes.
|
|--
|Bryan Henderson                                    Phone 408-227-6803
|San Jose, California
|
This commit is contained in:
Marc G. Fournier 1996-09-16 05:33:20 +00:00
parent c5dd292007
commit 475493130d
2 changed files with 32 additions and 17 deletions

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@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
*
*
* IDENTIFICATION
* $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/executor/execQual.c,v 1.1.1.1 1996/07/09 06:21:25 scrappy Exp $
* $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/executor/execQual.c,v 1.2 1996/09/16 05:33:20 scrappy Exp $
*
*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
*/
@ -172,8 +172,24 @@ ExecEvalAggreg(Aggreg *agg, ExprContext *econtext, bool *isNull)
*
* Returns a Datum whose value is the value of a range
* variable with respect to given expression context.
* ----------------------------------------------------------------
*/
*
*
* As an entry condition, we expect that the the datatype the
* plan expects to get (as told by our "variable" argument) is in
* fact the datatype of the attribute the plan says to fetch (as
* seen in the current context, identified by our "econtext"
* argument).
*
* If we fetch a Type A attribute and Caller treats it as if it
* were Type B, there will be undefined results (e.g. crash).
* One way these might mismatch now is that we're accessing a
* catalog class and the type information in the pg_attribute
* class does not match the hardcoded pg_attribute information
* (in pg_attribute.h) for the class in question.
*
* We have an Assert to make sure this entry condition is met.
*
* ---------------------------------------------------------------- */
Datum
ExecEvalVar(Var *variable, ExprContext *econtext, bool *isNull)
{
@ -211,8 +227,12 @@ ExecEvalVar(Var *variable, ExprContext *econtext, bool *isNull)
heapTuple = slot->val;
tuple_type = slot->ttc_tupleDescriptor;
buffer = slot->ttc_buffer;
attnum = variable->varattno;
/* (See prolog for explanation of this Assert) */
Assert(attnum < 0 ||
variable->vartype == tuple_type->attrs[attnum-1]->atttypid)
/*
* If the attribute number is invalid, then we are supposed to

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*
* Copyright (c) 1994, Regents of the University of California
*
* $Id: tupdesc.h,v 1.1 1996/08/27 21:50:26 scrappy Exp $
* $Id: tupdesc.h,v 1.2 1996/09/16 05:33:13 scrappy Exp $
*
*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
*/
@ -18,21 +18,16 @@
#include "nodes/pg_list.h" /* for List */
#include "catalog/pg_attribute.h"
/*
* a TupleDesc is an array of AttributeTupleForms, each of which is a
* pointer to a AttributeTupleForm
*/
/* typedef AttributeTupleForm *TupleDesc; */
/* a TupleDesc is a pointer to a structure which includes an array of */
/* AttributeTupleForms, i.e. pg_attribute information, and the size of */
/* the array, i.e. the number of attributes */
/* in short, a TupleDesc completely captures the attribute information */
/* for a tuple */
typedef struct tupleDesc {
int natts;
/*------------------------------------------------------------------------
This structure contains all the attribute information (i.e. from Class
pg_attribute) for a tuple.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
int natts;
/* Number of attributes in the tuple */
AttributeTupleForm *attrs;
/* attrs[N] is a pointer to the description of Attribute Number N+1. */
} *TupleDesc;
extern TupleDesc CreateTemplateTupleDesc(int natts);