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Since v15 we've had an option to apply a foreign key constraint's ON DELETE SET DEFAULT or SET NULL action to just some of the referencing columns. There was not a check for duplicate entries in the list of columns-to-set, though. That caused a potential memory stomp in CreateConstraintEntry(), which incautiously assumed that the list of columns-to-set couldn't be longer than the number of key columns. Even after fixing that, the case doesn't work because you get an error like "multiple assignments to same column" from the SQL command that is generated to do the update. We could either raise an error for duplicate columns or silently suppress the dups, and after a bit of thought I chose to do the latter. This is motivated by the fact that duplicates in the FK column list are legal, so it's not real clear why duplicates in the columns-to-set list shouldn't be. Of course there's no need to actually set the column more than once. I left in the fix in CreateConstraintEntry() too, just because it didn't seem like such low-level code ought to be making assumptions about what it's handed. Bug: #18879 Reported-by: Yu Liang <luy70@psu.edu> Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18879-259fc59d072bd4d7@postgresql.org Backpatch-through: 15
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