pgsql: postgres_fdw: be more wary about shippability of reg* constants. - Mailing list pgsql-committers

From Tom Lane
Subject pgsql: postgres_fdw: be more wary about shippability of reg* constants.
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Msg-id E1oDCUQ-0000al-KD@gemulon.postgresql.org
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postgres_fdw: be more wary about shippability of reg* constants.

Don't consider a constant of regconfig or other reg* types to be
shippable unless it refers to a built-in object, or an object in
an extension that's been marked shippable.  Without this
restriction, we're too likely to send a constant that will fail
to parse on the remote server.

For the regconfig type only, consider OIDs up to 16383 to be
"built in", rather than the normal cutoff of 9999.  Otherwise
the initdb-created text search configurations will be considered
unshippable, which is unlikely to make anyone happy.

It's possible that this new restriction will de-optimize queries
that were working satisfactorily before.  Users can restore any
lost performance by making sure that objects that can be expected
to exist on the remote side are in shippable extensions.  However,
that's not a change that people are likely to be happy about having
to make after a minor-release update.  Between that consideration
and the lack of field complaints, let's just change this in HEAD.

Noted while fixing bug #17483, although this is not precisely
the problem that that report complained about.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1423433.1652722406@sss.pgh.pa.us

Branch
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master

Details
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/31e5b502920351ddcf8f5efa7f2dc4a60ecdca3a

Modified Files
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contrib/postgres_fdw/deparse.c                 | 72 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
contrib/postgres_fdw/expected/postgres_fdw.out | 25 ++++++++-
contrib/postgres_fdw/sql/postgres_fdw.sql      | 12 ++++-
3 files changed, 107 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)


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