Some variants of ALTER OWNER tried to make the "object" field of the

statement be a list of bare C strings, rather than String nodes, which is
what they need to be for copyfuncs/equalfuncs to work.  Fortunately these
node types never go out to disk (if they did, we'd likely have noticed the
problem sooner), so we can just fix it without creating a need for initdb.
This bug has been there since 8.0, but 8.3 exposes it in a more common
code path (Parse messages) than prior releases did.  Per bug #3940 from
Vladimir Kokovic.

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/alter.c b/src/backend/commands/alter.c
index 7e1b4c7e08c7903b194c4ae2cc8bb4842ac8f461..3d3312c93ac108e5580659c085539dfe8e372af9 100644 (file)
--- a/src/backend/commands/alter.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/alter.c
@@ -192,7 +192,7 @@ ExecAlterOwnerStmt(AlterOwnerStmt *stmt)
                        break;
 
                case OBJECT_DATABASE:
-                       AlterDatabaseOwner((char *) linitial(stmt->object), newowner);
+                       AlterDatabaseOwner(strVal(linitial(stmt->object)), newowner);
                        break;
 
                case OBJECT_FUNCTION:
@@ -212,11 +212,11 @@ ExecAlterOwnerStmt(AlterOwnerStmt *stmt)
                        break;
 
                case OBJECT_SCHEMA:
-                       AlterSchemaOwner((char *) linitial(stmt->object), newowner);
+                       AlterSchemaOwner(strVal(linitial(stmt->object)), newowner);
                        break;
 
                case OBJECT_TABLESPACE:
-                       AlterTableSpaceOwner((char *) linitial(stmt->object), newowner);
+                       AlterTableSpaceOwner(strVal(linitial(stmt->object)), newowner);
                        break;
 
                case OBJECT_TYPE:

diff --git a/src/backend/parser/gram.y b/src/backend/parser/gram.y
index eceb4eeb1e5f375326103720cfbeee47bc468ed7..89e8b7590e91156f95e89d81e8154c4c3e09f5be 100644 (file)
--- a/src/backend/parser/gram.y
+++ b/src/backend/parser/gram.y
@@ -4438,7 +4438,7 @@ AlterOwnerStmt: ALTER AGGREGATE func_name aggr_args OWNER TO RoleId
                                {
                                        AlterOwnerStmt *n = makeNode(AlterOwnerStmt);
                                        n->objectType = OBJECT_DATABASE;
-                                       n->object = list_make1($3);
+                                       n->object = list_make1(makeString($3));
                                        n->newowner = $6;
                                        $$ = (Node *)n;
                                }
@@ -4481,7 +4481,7 @@ AlterOwnerStmt: ALTER AGGREGATE func_name aggr_args OWNER TO RoleId
                                {
                                        AlterOwnerStmt *n = makeNode(AlterOwnerStmt);
                                        n->objectType = OBJECT_SCHEMA;
-                                       n->object = list_make1($3);
+                                       n->object = list_make1(makeString($3));
                                        n->newowner = $6;
                                        $$ = (Node *)n;
                                }
@@ -4497,7 +4497,7 @@ AlterOwnerStmt: ALTER AGGREGATE func_name aggr_args OWNER TO RoleId
                                {
                                        AlterOwnerStmt *n = makeNode(AlterOwnerStmt);
                                        n->objectType = OBJECT_TABLESPACE;
-                                       n->object = list_make1($3);
+                                       n->object = list_make1(makeString($3));
                                        n->newowner = $6;
                                        $$ = (Node *)n;
                                }