Re: ON CONFLICT DO UPDATE for partitioned tables - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: ON CONFLICT DO UPDATE for partitioned tables
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Msg-id 20180316151303.rml2p5wffn3o6qy6@alvherre.pgsql
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In response to Re: ON CONFLICT DO UPDATE for partitioned tables  (Pavan Deolasee <pavan.deolasee@gmail.com>)
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Re: ON CONFLICT DO UPDATE for partitioned tables
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Pavan Deolasee wrote:

> Hmm, yeah, probably you're right. The reason I got confused is because the
> patch uses ri_onConflictSetProj/ri_onConflictSetWhere to store the
> converted projection info/where clause for a given partition in its
> ResultRelationInfo. So I was wondering if we can
> move mt_arbiterindexes, mt_existing and mt_conflproj to ResultRelInfo and
> then just use that per-partition structures too.

I wonder if the proposed structure is good actually.

Some notes as I go along.

1. ModifyTableState->mt_arbiterindexes is just a copy of
ModifyTable->arbiterIndexes.  So why do we need it?  For an
unpartitioned relation we can just use
ModifyTableState.ps->arbiterIndexes.  Now, for each partition we need to
map these indexes onto the partition indexes.  Not sure where to put
these; I'm tempted to say ResultRelInfo is the place.  Maybe the list
should always be in ResultRelInfo instead of the state/plan node?  Not
sure.

2. We don't need mt_existing to be per-relation; a single tuple slot can
do for all partitions; we just need to ExecSlotSetDescriptor to the
partition's descriptor whenever the slot is going to be used.  (This
means the slot no longer has a fixed tupdesc.  That seems OK).

3. ModifyTableState->mt_conflproj is more or less the same thing; the
same TTS can be reused by all the different projections, as long as we
set the descriptor before projecting.  So we don't
need PartitionTupleRouting->partition_conflproj_slots, but we do need a
descriptor to be used when needed.  Let's say
  PartitionTupleRouting->partition_confl_tupdesc 

I'll experiment with these ideas and see where that leads me.

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