Reject system columns as elements of foreign keys.

Up through v11 it was sensible to use the "oid" system column as
a foreign key column, but since that was removed there's no visible
usefulness in making any of the remaining system columns a foreign
key.  Moreover, since the TupleTableSlot rewrites in v12, such cases
actively fail because of implicit assumptions that only user columns
appear in foreign keys.  The lack of complaints about that seems
like good evidence that no one is trying to do it.  Hence, rather
than trying to repair those assumptions (of which there are at least
two, maybe more), let's just forbid the case up front.

Per this patch, a system column in either the referenced or
referencing side of a foreign key will draw this error; however,
putting one in the referenced side would have failed later anyway,
since we don't allow unique indexes to be made on system columns.

Per bug #17877 from Alexander Lakhin.  Back-patch to v12; the
case still appears to work in v11, so we shouldn't break it there.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17877-4bcc658e33df6de1@postgresql.org

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/foreign_key.out b/src/test/regress/expected/foreign_key.out
index 2f9c083539..55f7158c1a 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/foreign_key.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/foreign_key.out
@@ -795,15 +795,16 @@ SELECT * FROM FKTABLE ORDER BY id;
 
 DROP TABLE FKTABLE;
 DROP TABLE PKTABLE;
-CREATE TABLE PKTABLE (ptest1 int PRIMARY KEY);
+-- Test some invalid FK definitions
+CREATE TABLE PKTABLE (ptest1 int PRIMARY KEY, someoid oid);
 CREATE TABLE FKTABLE_FAIL1 ( ftest1 int, CONSTRAINT fkfail1 FOREIGN KEY (ftest2) REFERENCES PKTABLE);
 ERROR:  column "ftest2" referenced in foreign key constraint does not exist
 CREATE TABLE FKTABLE_FAIL2 ( ftest1 int, CONSTRAINT fkfail1 FOREIGN KEY (ftest1) REFERENCES PKTABLE(ptest2));
 ERROR:  column "ptest2" referenced in foreign key constraint does not exist
-DROP TABLE FKTABLE_FAIL1;
-ERROR:  table "fktable_fail1" does not exist
-DROP TABLE FKTABLE_FAIL2;
-ERROR:  table "fktable_fail2" does not exist
+CREATE TABLE FKTABLE_FAIL3 ( ftest1 int, CONSTRAINT fkfail1 FOREIGN KEY (tableoid) REFERENCES PKTABLE(someoid));
+ERROR:  system columns cannot be used in foreign keys
+CREATE TABLE FKTABLE_FAIL4 ( ftest1 oid, CONSTRAINT fkfail1 FOREIGN KEY (ftest1) REFERENCES PKTABLE(tableoid));
+ERROR:  system columns cannot be used in foreign keys
 DROP TABLE PKTABLE;
 -- Test for referencing column number smaller than referenced constraint
 CREATE TABLE PKTABLE (ptest1 int, ptest2 int, UNIQUE(ptest1, ptest2));