On 2015/04/10 21:40, Etsuro Fujita wrote:
> On 2015/04/09 12:07, Etsuro Fujita wrote:
>> I'll update the patch, which will contain only an infrastructure for
>> this in the PG core, and will not contain any postgres_fdw change.
>
> I updated the patch based on your comments. Updated patch attached. In
> the patch the following FDW APIs have been proposed:
>
> + RowMarkType
> + GetForeignRowMarkType (LockClauseStrength strength);
>
> + bool
> + LockForeignRow (EState *estate,
> + ExecRowMark *erm,
> + ItemPointer tupleid);
>
> + HeapTuple
> + FetchForeignRow (EState *estate,
> + ExecRowMark *erm,
> + ItemPointer tupleid);
>
> I think that these APIs allow the FDW that has TIDs to use the rowmark
> options such as ROW_MARK_REFERENCE, ROW_MARK_SHARE and
> ROW_MARK_EXCLUSIVE for its foreign tables so as to match the local
> semantics exactly, for example.
>
> As you mentioned, it would be better to add helper functions to see
> whether the foreign table is referenced by any ExecRowMarks. ISTM that
> an easy way to do that is to modify ExecFindRowMark() so that it allows
> for the missing case. I didn't contain such functions in the patch, though.
I added that function and modified docs a bit. Please find attached an
updated version of the patch.
Best regards,
Etsuro Fujita
