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From: Laurenz Albe <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: BUG #19393: pg_upgrade fails with duplicate key violation when CHECK constraint named *_not_null exists
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2026 17:52:50 +0100
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
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	<[email protected]>

On Thu, 2026-02-05 at 15:58 +0100, I wrote:
> The bug is actually not in pg_upgrade, but in CREATE TABLE.  The attached patch
> fixes the problem for me by avoiding given constraint names when generating
> the names for NOT NULL constraints.

... and here is v2, including a regression test.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe


Attachments:

  [text/x-patch] v2-0001-Avoid-name-collision-with-NOT-NULL-constraints.patch (5.5K, 2-v2-0001-Avoid-name-collision-with-NOT-NULL-constraints.patch)
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From 7b7b165a574f12ebe77005def9af3cf2782209a0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Laurenz Albe <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2026 17:47:38 +0100
Subject: [PATCH v2] Avoid name collision with NOT NULL constraints
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If a CREATE TABLE statement defined a constraint whose name
is identical to the name generated for a NOT NULL constraint,
PostgreSQL would throw a unique key violation error on
"pg_constraint_conrelid_contypid_conname_index".

To fix, pass the constraints created by AddRelationNewConstraints()
to AddRelationNotNullConstraints(), so that the latter can avoid
name collisions with the constraint names it generates.

Bug: #19393
Reported-by: Hüseyin Demir <[email protected]>
Author: Laurenz Albe <[email protected]>
---
 src/backend/catalog/heap.c                 | 12 ++++++++++--
 src/backend/commands/tablecmds.c           |  7 ++++---
 src/include/catalog/heap.h                 |  3 ++-
 src/test/regress/expected/create_table.out |  6 ++++++
 src/test/regress/sql/create_table.sql      |  7 +++++++
 5 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/heap.c b/src/backend/catalog/heap.c
index 606434823cf..35cc6b506e0 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/heap.c
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/heap.c
@@ -2885,14 +2885,16 @@ MergeWithExistingConstraint(Relation rel, const char *ccname, Node *expr,
  * for each column, giving priority to user-specified ones, and setting
  * inhcount according to how many parents cause each column to get a
  * not-null constraint.  If a user-specified name clashes with another
- * user-specified name, an error is raised.
+ * user-specified name, an error is raised.  'existing_constraints'
+ * is a list of already defined constraints, whose names should be avoided
+ * when generating constraint names.
  *
  * Returns a list of AttrNumber for columns that need to have the attnotnull
  * flag set.
  */
 List *
 AddRelationNotNullConstraints(Relation rel, List *constraints,
-							  List *old_notnulls)
+							  List *old_notnulls, List *existing_constraints)
 {
 	List	   *givennames;
 	List	   *nnnames;
@@ -2905,6 +2907,12 @@ AddRelationNotNullConstraints(Relation rel, List *constraints,
 	 * system-generated name conflicts we just generate another.
 	 */
 	nnnames = NIL;
+	foreach_ptr(CookedConstraint, cons, existing_constraints)
+	{
+		if (cons->name != NULL)
+			nnnames = lappend(nnnames, cons->name);
+	}
+
 	givennames = NIL;
 
 	/*
diff --git a/src/backend/commands/tablecmds.c b/src/backend/commands/tablecmds.c
index f976c0e5c7e..ca68ee8c990 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/tablecmds.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/tablecmds.c
@@ -781,6 +781,7 @@ DefineRelation(CreateStmt *stmt, char relkind, Oid ownerId,
 	List	   *rawDefaults;
 	List	   *cookedDefaults;
 	List	   *nncols;
+	List	   *conlist = NIL;
 	Datum		reloptions;
 	ListCell   *listptr;
 	AttrNumber	attnum;
@@ -1338,8 +1339,8 @@ DefineRelation(CreateStmt *stmt, char relkind, Oid ownerId,
 	 * up.
 	 */
 	if (stmt->constraints)
-		AddRelationNewConstraints(rel, NIL, stmt->constraints,
-								  true, true, false, queryString);
+		conlist = AddRelationNewConstraints(rel, NIL, stmt->constraints,
+											true, true, false, queryString);
 
 	/*
 	 * Finally, merge the not-null constraints that are declared directly with
@@ -1348,7 +1349,7 @@ DefineRelation(CreateStmt *stmt, char relkind, Oid ownerId,
 	 * columns that don't yet have it.
 	 */
 	nncols = AddRelationNotNullConstraints(rel, stmt->nnconstraints,
-										   old_notnulls);
+										   old_notnulls, conlist);
 	foreach_int(attrnum, nncols)
 		set_attnotnull(NULL, rel, attrnum, true, false);
 
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/heap.h b/src/include/catalog/heap.h
index 624c415dadb..6c9ac812aa0 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/heap.h
+++ b/src/include/catalog/heap.h
@@ -117,7 +117,8 @@ extern List *AddRelationNewConstraints(Relation rel,
 									   const char *queryString);
 extern List *AddRelationNotNullConstraints(Relation rel,
 										   List *constraints,
-										   List *old_notnulls);
+										   List *old_notnulls,
+										   List *existing_constraints);
 
 extern void RelationClearMissing(Relation rel);
 
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/create_table.out b/src/test/regress/expected/create_table.out
index 029beb20aae..90639ea0d89 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/create_table.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/create_table.out
@@ -161,6 +161,12 @@ ALTER TABLE remember_node_subid ALTER c TYPE bigint;
 SAVEPOINT q; DROP TABLE remember_node_subid; ROLLBACK TO q;
 COMMIT;
 DROP TABLE remember_node_subid;
+-- generated NOT NULL constraint names must not collide with explicitly named constraints
+CREATE TABLE two_not_null_constraints (
+   col integer NOT NULL,
+   CONSTRAINT two_not_null_constraints_col_not_null CHECK (col IS NOT NULL)
+);
+DROP TABLE two_not_null_constraints;
 --
 -- Partitioned tables
 --
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/create_table.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/create_table.sql
index 9b3e93b4164..80e424e6bda 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/create_table.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/create_table.sql
@@ -105,6 +105,13 @@ SAVEPOINT q; DROP TABLE remember_node_subid; ROLLBACK TO q;
 COMMIT;
 DROP TABLE remember_node_subid;
 
+-- generated NOT NULL constraint names must not collide with explicitly named constraints
+CREATE TABLE two_not_null_constraints (
+   col integer NOT NULL,
+   CONSTRAINT two_not_null_constraints_col_not_null CHECK (col IS NOT NULL)
+);
+DROP TABLE two_not_null_constraints;
+
 --
 -- Partitioned tables
 --
-- 
2.53.0



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