Re: postgres_fdw: Oddity in pushing down inherited UPDATE/DELETEjoins to remote servers - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Amit Langote
Subject Re: postgres_fdw: Oddity in pushing down inherited UPDATE/DELETEjoins to remote servers
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Msg-id 9fd3a3e4-bfa8-d9e8-3e63-cae3133384b5@lab.ntt.co.jp
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In response to Re: postgres_fdw: Oddity in pushing down inherited UPDATE/DELETEjoins to remote servers  (Etsuro Fujita <fujita.etsuro@lab.ntt.co.jp>)
Responses Re: postgres_fdw: Oddity in pushing down inherited UPDATE/DELETEjoins to remote servers  (Etsuro Fujita <fujita.etsuro@lab.ntt.co.jp>)
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On 2018/05/11 21:48, Etsuro Fujita wrote:
> (2018/05/11 16:19), Amit Langote wrote:
>> On 2018/05/11 16:12, Amit Langote wrote:
>>> Just to clarify, does this problem only arise because there is a pushed
>>> down join involving the child?  That is, does the problem only occur as of
>>> the following commit:
>>>
>>> commit 1bc0100d270e5bcc980a0629b8726a32a497e788
>>> Author: Robert Haas<rhaas@postgresql.org>
>>> Date:   Wed Feb 7 15:34:30 2018 -0500
>>>
>>>      postgres_fdw: Push down UPDATE/DELETE joins to remote servers.
>>>
>>> In other words, do we need to back-patch this up to 9.5 which added
>>> foreign table inheritance?
>>
>> Oops, it should have been clear by the subject line that the problem
>> didn't exist before that commit.  Sorry.
> 
> No.  In theory, I think we could consider this as an older bug added in
> 9.5, because in case of inherited UPDATE/DELETE, the PlannerInfo passed
> to PlanForeignModify doesn't match the one the FDW saw at Path creation
> time, as you mentioned in a previous email, while in case of
> non-inherited UPDATE/DELETE, the PlannerInfo passed to that function
> matches the one the FDW saw at that time.  I think that's my fault :(.

Ah, I see.  Thanks for clarifying.

> But considering there seems to be no field reports on that, I don't
> think we need back-patching up to 9.5.

Yeah, that might be fine, although it perhaps wouldn't hurt to have the
code match in all branches.

Thanks,
Amit



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