From ce3b0ab0c327b2e3efa44342ad8de3256806cf84 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tom Lane Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 15:45:02 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Prevent a rowtype from being included in itself. Eventually we might be able to allow that, but it's not clear how many places need to be fixed to prevent infinite recursion when there's a direct or indirect inclusion of a rowtype in itself. One such place is CheckAttributeType(), which will recurse to stack overflow in cases such as those exhibited in bug #5950 from Alex Perepelica. If we were sure it was the only such place, we could easily modify the code added by this patch to stop the recursion without a complaint ... but it probably isn't the only such place. Hence, throw error until such time as someone is excited enough about this type of usage to put work into making it safe. Back-patch as far as 8.3. 8.2 doesn't have the recursive call in CheckAttributeType in the first place, so I see no need to add code there in the absence of clear evidence of a problem elsewhere. --- src/backend/catalog/heap.c | 38 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- src/backend/catalog/index.c | 3 ++- src/backend/commands/tablecmds.c | 8 +++++-- src/include/catalog/heap.h | 1 + src/test/regress/expected/alter_table.out | 12 ++++++++++ src/test/regress/sql/alter_table.sql | 9 ++++++++ 6 files changed, 67 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/heap.c b/src/backend/catalog/heap.c index a090981e5c..d74700f716 100644 --- a/src/backend/catalog/heap.c +++ b/src/backend/catalog/heap.c @@ -422,6 +422,7 @@ CheckAttributeNamesTypes(TupleDesc tupdesc, char relkind, { CheckAttributeType(NameStr(tupdesc->attrs[i]->attname), tupdesc->attrs[i]->atttypid, + NIL, /* assume we're creating a new rowtype */ allow_system_table_mods); } } @@ -430,15 +431,24 @@ CheckAttributeNamesTypes(TupleDesc tupdesc, char relkind, * CheckAttributeType * * Verify that the proposed datatype of an attribute is legal. - * This is needed because there are types (and pseudo-types) + * This is needed mainly because there are types (and pseudo-types) * in the catalogs that we do not support as elements of real tuples. + * We also check some other properties required of a table column. + * + * If the attribute is being proposed for addition to an existing table or + * composite type, pass a one-element list of the rowtype OID as + * containing_rowtypes. When checking a to-be-created rowtype, it's + * sufficient to pass NIL, because there could not be any recursive reference + * to a not-yet-existing rowtype. * -------------------------------- */ void CheckAttributeType(const char *attname, Oid atttypid, + List *containing_rowtypes, bool allow_system_table_mods) { char att_typtype = get_typtype(atttypid); + Oid att_typelem; if (atttypid == UNKNOWNOID) { @@ -476,6 +486,20 @@ CheckAttributeType(const char *attname, Oid atttypid, TupleDesc tupdesc; int i; + /* + * Check for self-containment. Eventually we might be able to allow + * this (just return without complaint, if so) but it's not clear how + * many other places would require anti-recursion defenses before it + * would be safe to allow tables to contain their own rowtype. + */ + if (list_member_oid(containing_rowtypes, atttypid)) + ereport(ERROR, + (errcode(ERRCODE_INVALID_TABLE_DEFINITION), + errmsg("composite type %s cannot be made a member of itself", + format_type_be(atttypid)))); + + containing_rowtypes = lcons_oid(atttypid, containing_rowtypes); + relation = relation_open(get_typ_typrelid(atttypid), AccessShareLock); tupdesc = RelationGetDescr(relation); @@ -487,10 +511,22 @@ CheckAttributeType(const char *attname, Oid atttypid, if (attr->attisdropped) continue; CheckAttributeType(NameStr(attr->attname), attr->atttypid, + containing_rowtypes, allow_system_table_mods); } relation_close(relation, AccessShareLock); + + containing_rowtypes = list_delete_first(containing_rowtypes); + } + else if (OidIsValid((att_typelem = get_element_type(atttypid)))) + { + /* + * Must recurse into array types, too, in case they are composite. + */ + CheckAttributeType(attname, att_typelem, + containing_rowtypes, + allow_system_table_mods); } } diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/index.c b/src/backend/catalog/index.c index 54cf280d57..caa985a791 100644 --- a/src/backend/catalog/index.c +++ b/src/backend/catalog/index.c @@ -258,7 +258,8 @@ ConstructTupleDescriptor(Relation heapRelation, * whether a table column is of a safe type (which is why we * needn't check for the non-expression case). */ - CheckAttributeType(NameStr(to->attname), to->atttypid, false); + CheckAttributeType(NameStr(to->attname), to->atttypid, + NIL, false); } /* diff --git a/src/backend/commands/tablecmds.c b/src/backend/commands/tablecmds.c index 6a1804b6fe..64141c0340 100644 --- a/src/backend/commands/tablecmds.c +++ b/src/backend/commands/tablecmds.c @@ -3729,7 +3729,9 @@ ATExecAddColumn(AlteredTableInfo *tab, Relation rel, typeOid = HeapTupleGetOid(typeTuple); /* make sure datatype is legal for a column */ - CheckAttributeType(colDef->colname, typeOid, false); + CheckAttributeType(colDef->colname, typeOid, + list_make1_oid(rel->rd_rel->reltype), + false); /* construct new attribute's pg_attribute entry */ attribute.attrelid = myrelid; @@ -5858,7 +5860,9 @@ ATPrepAlterColumnType(List **wqueue, targettype = typenameTypeId(NULL, typeName, &targettypmod); /* make sure datatype is legal for a column */ - CheckAttributeType(colName, targettype, false); + CheckAttributeType(colName, targettype, + list_make1_oid(rel->rd_rel->reltype), + false); /* * Set up an expression to transform the old data value to the new type. diff --git a/src/include/catalog/heap.h b/src/include/catalog/heap.h index 557c311bc2..6a91ddb4fc 100644 --- a/src/include/catalog/heap.h +++ b/src/include/catalog/heap.h @@ -115,6 +115,7 @@ extern void CheckAttributeNamesTypes(TupleDesc tupdesc, char relkind, bool allow_system_table_mods); extern void CheckAttributeType(const char *attname, Oid atttypid, + List *containing_rowtypes, bool allow_system_table_mods); #endif /* HEAP_H */ diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/alter_table.out b/src/test/regress/expected/alter_table.out index 40a907d869..a460371a11 100644 --- a/src/test/regress/expected/alter_table.out +++ b/src/test/regress/expected/alter_table.out @@ -1476,6 +1476,18 @@ select * from another; (3 rows) drop table another; +-- disallow recursive containment of row types +create temp table recur1 (f1 int); +alter table recur1 add column f2 recur1; -- fails +ERROR: composite type recur1 cannot be made a member of itself +alter table recur1 add column f2 recur1[]; -- fails +ERROR: composite type recur1 cannot be made a member of itself +create temp table recur2 (f1 int, f2 recur1); +alter table recur1 add column f2 recur2; -- fails +ERROR: composite type recur1 cannot be made a member of itself +alter table recur1 add column f2 int; +alter table recur1 alter column f2 type recur2; -- fails +ERROR: composite type recur1 cannot be made a member of itself -- -- alter function -- diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/alter_table.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/alter_table.sql index 2b01238e28..8f472cff1e 100644 --- a/src/test/regress/sql/alter_table.sql +++ b/src/test/regress/sql/alter_table.sql @@ -1092,6 +1092,15 @@ select * from another; drop table another; +-- disallow recursive containment of row types +create temp table recur1 (f1 int); +alter table recur1 add column f2 recur1; -- fails +alter table recur1 add column f2 recur1[]; -- fails +create temp table recur2 (f1 int, f2 recur1); +alter table recur1 add column f2 recur2; -- fails +alter table recur1 add column f2 int; +alter table recur1 alter column f2 type recur2; -- fails + -- -- alter function -- -- 2.11.0