gh-108364: In sqlite3, disable foreign keys before dumping SQL schema (…

…#113957)

sqlite3.Connection.iterdump now ensures that foreign key support is
disabled before dumping the database schema, if there is any foreign key
violation.

Co-authored-by: Erlend E. Aasland <erlend@python.org>

Lib/sqlite3/dump.py

@@ -26,6 +26,10 @@ def _iterdump(connection):
 
     writeable_schema = False
     cu = connection.cursor()
+    # Disable foreign key constraints, if there is any foreign key violation.
+    violations = cu.execute("PRAGMA foreign_key_check").fetchall()
+    if violations:
+        yield('PRAGMA foreign_keys=OFF;')
     yield('BEGIN TRANSACTION;')
 
     # sqlite_master table contains the SQL CREATE statements for the database.

Lib/test/test_sqlite3/test_dump.py

@@ -20,7 +20,8 @@ def test_table_dump(self):
                 ,
                 "CREATE TABLE t1(id integer primary key, s1 text, " \
                 "t1_i1 integer not null, i2 integer, unique (s1), " \
-                "constraint t1_idx1 unique (i2));"
+                "constraint t1_idx1 unique (i2), " \
+                "constraint t1_i1_idx1 unique (t1_i1));"
                 ,
                 "INSERT INTO \"t1\" VALUES(1,'foo',10,20);"
                 ,
@@ -30,6 +31,9 @@ def test_table_dump(self):
                 "t2_i2 integer, primary key (id)," \
                 "foreign key(t2_i1) references t1(t1_i1));"
                 ,
+                # Foreign key violation.
+                "INSERT INTO \"t2\" VALUES(1,2,3);"
+                ,
                 "CREATE TRIGGER trigger_1 update of t1_i1 on t1 " \
                 "begin " \
                 "update t2 set t2_i1 = new.t1_i1 where t2_i1 = old.t1_i1; " \
@@ -41,8 +45,12 @@ def test_table_dump(self):
         [self.cu.execute(s) for s in expected_sqls]
         i = self.cx.iterdump()
         actual_sqls = [s for s in i]
-        expected_sqls = ['BEGIN TRANSACTION;'] + expected_sqls + \
-            ['COMMIT;']
+        expected_sqls = [
+            "PRAGMA foreign_keys=OFF;",
+            "BEGIN TRANSACTION;",
+            *expected_sqls,
+            "COMMIT;",
+        ]
         [self.assertEqual(expected_sqls[i], actual_sqls[i])
             for i in range(len(expected_sqls))]
 

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2024-01-11-22-22-51.gh-issue-108364.QH7C-1.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+:meth:`sqlite3.Connection.iterdump` now ensures that foreign key support is
+disabled before dumping the database schema, if there is any foreign key
+violation. Patch by Erlend E. Aasland and Mariusz Felisiak.