From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 16:19:12 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Fix ALTER COLUMN TYPE bug: it sometimes tried to drop UNIQUE or PRIMARY KEY
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Fix ALTER COLUMN TYPE bug: it sometimes tried to drop UNIQUE or PRIMARY KEY
constraints before FOREIGN KEY constraints that depended on them.  Originally
reported by Neil Conway on 29-Jun-2005.  Patch by Nakano Yoshihisa.
---

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/tablecmds.c b/src/backend/commands/tablecmds.c
index aa716c303f..cba202d9f4 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/tablecmds.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/tablecmds.c
@@ -4926,12 +4926,38 @@ ATExecAlterColumnType(AlteredTableInfo *tab, Relation rel,
 
 			case OCLASS_CONSTRAINT:
 				Assert(foundObject.objectSubId == 0);
-				if (!list_member_oid(tab->changedConstraintOids, foundObject.objectId))
+				if (!list_member_oid(tab->changedConstraintOids,
+									 foundObject.objectId))
 				{
-					tab->changedConstraintOids = lappend_oid(tab->changedConstraintOids,
-												   foundObject.objectId);
-					tab->changedConstraintDefs = lappend(tab->changedConstraintDefs,
-					  pg_get_constraintdef_string(foundObject.objectId));
+					char *defstring = pg_get_constraintdef_string(foundObject.objectId);
+
+					/*
+					 * Put NORMAL dependencies at the front of the list and
+					 * AUTO dependencies at the back.  This makes sure that
+					 * foreign-key constraints depending on this column will
+					 * be dropped before unique or primary-key constraints of
+					 * the column; which we must have because the FK
+					 * constraints depend on the indexes belonging to the
+					 * unique constraints.
+					 */
+					if (foundDep->deptype == DEPENDENCY_NORMAL)
+					{
+						tab->changedConstraintOids =
+							lcons_oid(foundObject.objectId,
+									  tab->changedConstraintOids);
+						tab->changedConstraintDefs =
+							lcons(defstring,
+								  tab->changedConstraintDefs);
+					}
+					else
+					{
+						tab->changedConstraintOids =
+							lappend_oid(tab->changedConstraintOids,
+										foundObject.objectId);
+						tab->changedConstraintDefs =
+							lappend(tab->changedConstraintDefs,
+									defstring);
+					}
 				}
 				break;
 
@@ -5099,10 +5125,12 @@ ATPostAlterTypeCleanup(List **wqueue, AlteredTableInfo *tab)
 		ATPostAlterTypeParse((char *) lfirst(l), wqueue);
 
 	/*
-	 * Now we can drop the existing constraints and indexes ---
-	 * constraints first, since some of them might depend on the indexes.
-	 * It should be okay to use DROP_RESTRICT here, since nothing else
-	 * should be depending on these objects.
+	 * Now we can drop the existing constraints and indexes --- constraints
+	 * first, since some of them might depend on the indexes.  In fact, we
+	 * have to delete FOREIGN KEY constraints before UNIQUE constraints,
+	 * but we already ordered the constraint list to ensure that would happen.
+	 * It should be okay to use DROP_RESTRICT here, since nothing else should
+	 * be depending on these objects.
 	 */
 	if (tab->changedConstraintOids)
 		obj.classId = get_system_catalog_relid(ConstraintRelationName);