weird ON CONFLICT clauses - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Álvaro Herrera
Subject weird ON CONFLICT clauses
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Msg-id 202511271516.oiefpvn3z27m@alvherre.pgsql
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Responses Re: weird ON CONFLICT clauses
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Hi,

While reviewing a patch I noticed that we allow some extraneous items in
ON CONFLICT clauses -- for instance,

create table tab (a int unique, b int);
insert into tab values (1, 1) on conflict (a int4_ops (fillfactor=10)) do nothing;

Why do we accept reloptions there without complaint?  Should we tighten
this up a little bit, or maybe it makes sense to accept this for some
reason?  I suspect the reloptions were added to index_elems after the ON
CONFLICT clause was made to use that production, but I didn't check the
git history.

So what about the attached patch?  I ran all tests and everything seems
to work correctly.  (Maybe I'd add some tests to verify that this
new error is covered, as the ones just above.)  It would complain to the
above:

ERROR:  operator class options are not allowed in ON CONFLICT clause
LÍNEA 1: insert into tab values (1, 1) on conflict (a int4_ops (fillf...
                                                   ^


This is certainly not very critical.

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