On Thu, Nov 6, 2025 at 7:00 PM Amit Langote <amitlangote09@gmail.com> wrote:
> Among those options, I considered the following block, which adds a
> ctid for the partitioned root table when it’s the only target in the
> query after partition pruning removes all child tables due to the
> WHERE false condition in the problematic case:
>
> /*
> * Ordinarily, we expect that leaf result relation(s) will have added some
> * ROWID_VAR Vars to the query. However, it's possible that constraint
> * exclusion suppressed every leaf relation. The executor will get upset
> * if the plan has no row identity columns at all, even though it will
> * certainly process no rows. Handle this edge case by re-opening the top
> * result relation and adding the row identity columns it would have used,
> * as preprocess_targetlist() would have done if it weren't marked "inh".
> * Then re-run build_base_rel_tlists() to ensure that the added columns
> * get propagated to the relation's reltarget. (This is a bit ugly, but
> * it seems better to confine the ugliness and extra cycles to this
> * unusual corner case.)
> */
> if (root->row_identity_vars == NIL)
> {
> Relation target_relation;
>
> target_relation = table_open(target_rte->relid, NoLock);
> add_row_identity_columns(root, result_relation,
> target_rte, target_relation);
> table_close(target_relation, NoLock);
> build_base_rel_tlists(root, root->processed_tlist);
> /* There are no ROWID_VAR Vars in this case, so we're done. */
> return;
> }
>
> If enable_partition_pruning is off, root->row_identity_vars already
> contains a RowIdentityVarInfo entry for the tableoid Var that was
> added while processing the foreign-table child partition. Because of
> that, the if (root->row_identity_vars == NIL) block doesn’t run in
> this case, so it won’t add any row identity columns such as ctid for
> the partitioned root table.
>
> In theory, we could prevent the planner from adding tableoid in the
> first place when the child table doesn’t support any row identity
> column -- or worse, doesn’t support the UPDATE/DELETE/MERGE command at
> all -- but doing so would require changing the order in which tableoid
> appears in root->processed_tlist. That would be too invasive for a
> back-patch.
I’ve implemented this alternative as well -- the version that prevents
adding tableoid when no other row-identity columns are added for the
child. That allows to keep root->row_identity_vars empty so the
dummy-root path can add ctid as intended by the above code block of
distribute_row_identity_vars().
This provides an alternative approach to compare against the other patch.
--
Thanks, Amit Langote
