On Mon, Feb 03, 2025 at 02:18:21PM -0600, Sami Imseih wrote:
> I think we should just block Foreign tables as we do with
> partition tables. Attached patch does that.
Unless there's some existing way to specify a FREEZE option in the FDW API
(I assume there isn't), I agree with this.
> I was also looking at why we block a parent from COPY FREEZE[1], but
> the comments do not convince me this is a good idea. I think there
> are good cases to allow this considering there is a common use case in
> which a single
> COPY command can load a large amount of data, making the overhead to check the
> partitions worth the value of the FREEZE optimization. I will probably
> start a separate thread for this.
Commit 5c9a551 and its thread [0] appear to have some additional details
about this.
[0] https://postgr.es/m/CAKJS1f9BbJ%2BFY3TbdCiap3qXHTFOiwtays9s36-oQkkM9_R5bg%40mail.gmail.com
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nathan
