From 603f601269ebba85477ea5fbd16f8295da585625 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 05:24:30 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Attached is a patch to contrib/dbmirror that fixes a bug that
 was causing  the postmaster to crash when the trigger was running on a table
 without a  primary key.

I've also updated the docs to explicitly say that tables need primary
keys.

Steven Singer
---
 contrib/dbmirror/README.dbmirror | 3 +++
 contrib/dbmirror/pending.c       | 7 ++++++-
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/contrib/dbmirror/README.dbmirror b/contrib/dbmirror/README.dbmirror
index 8788ffd4e5f..b89ea49a94f 100644
--- a/contrib/dbmirror/README.dbmirror
+++ b/contrib/dbmirror/README.dbmirror
@@ -120,6 +120,9 @@ Execute the SQL code in AddTrigger.sql once for each table that should
 be mirrored.   Replace MyTableName with the name of the table that should
 be mirrored.
 
+NOTE: DBMirror requires that every table being mirrored have a primary key
+defined.
+
 5)  Create the slave database.
 
 The DBMirror system keeps the contents of mirrored tables identical on the
diff --git a/contrib/dbmirror/pending.c b/contrib/dbmirror/pending.c
index d62da430d19..911cd7ab47f 100644
--- a/contrib/dbmirror/pending.c
+++ b/contrib/dbmirror/pending.c
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 /****************************************************************************
  * pending.c
- * $Id: pending.c,v 1.4 2002/09/05 00:43:06 tgl Exp $
+ * $Id: pending.c,v 1.5 2002/09/26 05:24:30 momjian Exp $
  *
  * This file contains a trigger for Postgresql-7.x to record changes to tables
  * to a pending table for mirroring.
@@ -225,6 +225,11 @@ storeKeyInfo(char *cpTableName, HeapTuple tTupleData,
 
 	/* pplan = SPI_saveplan(pplan); */
 	cpKeyData = packageData(tTupleData, tTupleDesc, tpTrigData, PRIMARY);
+	if (cpKeyData == NULL)
+	{
+		elog(ERROR,"Could not determine primary key data");
+		return -1;
+	}
 #if defined DEBUG_OUTPUT
 	elog(NOTICE, cpKeyData);
 #endif
-- 
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