Improve behavior of concurrent ALTER TABLE, and do some refactoring.
ALTER TABLE (and ALTER VIEW, ALTER SEQUENCE, etc.) now use a
RangeVarGetRelid callback to check permissions before acquiring a table
lock. We also now use the same callback for all forms of ALTER TABLE,
rather than having separate, almost-identical callbacks for ALTER TABLE
.. SET SCHEMA and ALTER TABLE .. RENAME, and no callback at all for
everything else.
I went ahead and changed the code so that no form of ALTER TABLE works
on foreign tables; you must use ALTER FOREIGN TABLE instead. In 9.1,
it was possible to use ALTER TABLE .. SET SCHEMA or ALTER TABLE ..
RENAME on a foreign table, but not any other form of ALTER TABLE, which
did not seem terribly useful or consistent.
Patch by me; review by Noah Misch.
Branch
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master
Details
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http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/1489e2f26a4c0318938b3085f50976512f321d84
Modified Files
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src/backend/commands/alter.c | 3 +-
src/backend/commands/tablecmds.c | 397 +++++++++++++++-----------------------
src/backend/tcop/utility.c | 17 ++-
src/include/commands/tablecmds.h | 7 +-
4 files changed, 170 insertions(+), 254 deletions(-)
