Re: Odd behavior in foreign table modification (Was: Re: Optimization for updating foreign tables in Postgres FDW)

On 2016/01/19 19:04, Thom Brown wrote:
> On 12 January 2016 at 11:49, Etsuro Fujita <fujita.etsuro@lab.ntt.co.jp> wrote:
>> On 2016/01/12 20:36, Thom Brown wrote:

>>> On 8 January 2016 at 05:08, Etsuro Fujita <fujita.etsuro@lab.ntt.co.jp>
>>> wrote:

>>>>> On 2016/01/06 20:37, Thom Brown wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I've run into an issue:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> *# UPDATE master_customers SET id = 22 WHERE id = 16 RETURNING
>>>>>> tableoid::regclass;
>>>>>> ERROR:
>>>>>> CONTEXT:  Remote SQL command: UPDATE public.customers SET id = 22
>>>>>> WHERE ((id = 16)) RETURNING NULL

>>>> While working on this, I noticed that the existing postgres_fdw system
>>>> shows
>>>> similar behavior, so I changed the subject.
>>>>
>>>> IIUC, the reason for that is when the local query specifies "RETURNING
>>>> tableoid::regclass", the FDW has fmstate->has_returning=false while the
>>>> remote query executed at ModifyTable has "RETURNING NULL", as shown in
>>>> the
>>>> above example; that would cause an abnormal exit in executing the remote
>>>> query in postgresExecForeignUpdate, since that the FDW would get
>>>> PGRES_TUPLES_OK as a result of the query while the FDW would think that
>>>> the
>>>> right result to get should be PGRES_COMMAND_OK, from the flag
>>>> fmstate->has_returning=false.

>>>> Attached is a patch to fix that.

>>> I can't apply this patch in tandem with FDW DML pushdown patch (either
>>> v2 or v3).

>> That patch is for fixing the similar issue in the existing postgres_fdw
>> system.  So, please apply that patch without the DML pushdown patch.  If
>> that patch is reasonable as a fix for the issue, I'll update the DML
>> pushdown patch (v3) on top of that patch.

> The patch seems to work for me:
>
> Before:
>
> *# UPDATE master_customers SET id = 22 WHERE id = 1 RETURNING
> tableoid::regclass;
> ERROR:
> CONTEXT:  Remote SQL command: UPDATE public.customers SET id = $2
> WHERE ctid = $1 RETURNING NULL
>
> After:
>
> *# UPDATE master_customers SET id = 22 WHERE id = 1 RETURNING
> tableoid::regclass;
>       tableoid
> ------------------
>   remote.customers
> (1 row)
>
> UPDATE 1

Thanks for the testing!

I updated the DML pushdown patch on top of Robert's version of this 
bugfix patch.  Please see

http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/56A0A9F0.9090304@lab.ntt.co.jp

Best regards,
Etsuro Fujita