Re: SQL:2011 Application Time Update & Delete - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On Sun, Jun 22, 2025 at 6:19 PM Paul A Jungwirth
<pj@illuminatedcomputing.com> wrote:
> Here are updated patches for UPDATE/DELETE FOR PORTION OF and related
> functionality. I left out the usual PERIODs patch because I'm still
> updating it to work with the latest master.

Here is a new set of patches, rebased to 325fc0ab14. No material changes.

I'm still working on the PERIOD DDL, but that doesn't have to go in at
the same time. The tricky part is ALTER TABLE ADD PERIOD, where I need
to wait until the add-columns pass to see the start/end columns'
type/etc, but then in that same pass I need to add a generated range
column. If I add the column in a later pass, I get a failure, e.g.
"cannot ALTER TABLE "pt" because it is being used by active queries in
this session". This only appeared with recent(ish) NOT NULL work. I
think the solution is to avoid holding a relcache entry longer than
needed, but I haven't had a chance to locate the issue yet.

Yours,

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Paul              ~{:-)
pj@illuminatedcomputing.com