Fix array slicing of int2vector and oidvector values.

tglsfdc · tglsfdc · commit d0378c8a8c50 · 2013-11-23T20:04:13.000-05:00
The previous coding labeled expressions such as pg_index.indkey[1:3] as
being of int2vector type; which is not right because the subscript bounds
of such a result don't, in general, satisfy the restrictions of int2vector.
To fix, implicitly promote the result of slicing int2vector to int2[],
or oidvector to oid[].  This is similar to what we've done with domains
over arrays, which is a good analogy because these types are very much
like restricted domains of the corresponding regular-array types.

A side-effect is that we now also forbid array-element updates on such
columns, eg while "update pg_index set indkey[4] = 42" would have worked
before if you were superuser (and corrupted your catalogs irretrievably,
no doubt) it's now disallowed.  This seems like a good thing since, again,
some choices of subscripting would've led to results not satisfying the
restrictions of int2vector.  The case of an array-slice update was
rejected before, though with a different error message than you get now.
We could make these cases work in future if we added a cast from int2[]
to int2vector (with a cast function checking the subscript restrictions)
but it seems unlikely that there's any value in that.

Per report from Ronan Dunklau.  Back-patch to all supported branches
because of the crash risks involved.
diff --git a/src/backend/parser/parse_node.c b/src/backend/parser/parse_node.c
@@ -267,6 +267,18 @@ transformArraySubscripts(ParseState *pstate,
 	if (!OidIsValid(elementType))
 		elementType = transformArrayType(arrayType);
 
+	/*
+	 * We treat int2vector and oidvector as though they were domains over
+	 * int2[] and oid[].  This is needed because array slicing could create an
+	 * array that doesn't satisfy the dimensionality constraints of the
+	 * xxxvector type; so we want the result of a slice operation to be
+	 * considered to be of the more general type.
+	 */
+	if (arrayType == INT2VECTOROID)
+		arrayType = INT2ARRAYOID;
+	else if (arrayType == OIDVECTOROID)
+		arrayType = OIDARRAYOID;
+
 	/*
 	 * A list containing only single subscripts refers to a single array
 	 * element.  If any of the items are double subscripts (lower:upper), then
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_type.h b/src/include/catalog/pg_type.h
@@ -430,13 +430,15 @@ DATA(insert OID = 1001 (  _bytea	 PGNSP PGUID -1 f b A f t \054 0	17 0 array_in
 DATA(insert OID = 1002 (  _char		 PGNSP PGUID -1 f b A f t \054 0	18 0 array_in array_out array_recv array_send - - - i x f 0 -1 0 _null_ _null_ ));
 DATA(insert OID = 1003 (  _name		 PGNSP PGUID -1 f b A f t \054 0	19 0 array_in array_out array_recv array_send - - - i x f 0 -1 0 _null_ _null_ ));
 DATA(insert OID = 1005 (  _int2		 PGNSP PGUID -1 f b A f t \054 0	21 0 array_in array_out array_recv array_send - - - i x f 0 -1 0 _null_ _null_ ));
+#define INT2ARRAYOID		1005
 DATA(insert OID = 1006 (  _int2vector PGNSP PGUID -1 f b A f t \054 0	22 0 array_in array_out array_recv array_send - - - i x f 0 -1 0 _null_ _null_ ));
 DATA(insert OID = 1007 (  _int4		 PGNSP PGUID -1 f b A f t \054 0	23 0 array_in array_out array_recv array_send - - - i x f 0 -1 0 _null_ _null_ ));
 #define INT4ARRAYOID		1007
 DATA(insert OID = 1008 (  _regproc	 PGNSP PGUID -1 f b A f t \054 0	24 0 array_in array_out array_recv array_send - - - i x f 0 -1 0 _null_ _null_ ));
 DATA(insert OID = 1009 (  _text		 PGNSP PGUID -1 f b A f t \054 0	25 0 array_in array_out array_recv array_send - - - i x f 0 -1 0 _null_ _null_ ));
 #define TEXTARRAYOID		1009
 DATA(insert OID = 1028 (  _oid		 PGNSP PGUID -1 f b A f t \054 0	26 0 array_in array_out array_recv array_send - - - i x f 0 -1 0 _null_ _null_ ));
+#define OIDARRAYOID			1028
 DATA(insert OID = 1010 (  _tid		 PGNSP PGUID -1 f b A f t \054 0	27 0 array_in array_out array_recv array_send - - - i x f 0 -1 0 _null_ _null_ ));
 DATA(insert OID = 1011 (  _xid		 PGNSP PGUID -1 f b A f t \054 0	28 0 array_in array_out array_recv array_send - - - i x f 0 -1 0 _null_ _null_ ));
 DATA(insert OID = 1012 (  _cid		 PGNSP PGUID -1 f b A f t \054 0	29 0 array_in array_out array_recv array_send - - - i x f 0 -1 0 _null_ _null_ ));
