Re: Problem while updating a foreign table pointing to a partitionedtable on foreign server

(2018/08/30 21:58), Etsuro Fujita wrote:
> (2018/08/30 20:37), Kyotaro HORIGUCHI wrote:
>> At Fri, 24 Aug 2018 21:45:35 +0900, Etsuro
>> Fujita<fujita.etsuro@lab.ntt.co.jp> wrote
>> in<5B7FFDEF.6020302@lab.ntt.co.jp>
>>> (2018/08/21 11:01), Kyotaro HORIGUCHI wrote:
>>>> At Tue, 14 Aug 2018 20:49:02 +0900, Etsuro
>>>> Fujita<fujita.etsuro@lab.ntt.co.jp> wrote
>>>> in<5B72C1AE.8010408@lab.ntt.co.jp>
>>>>> (2018/08/09 22:04), Etsuro Fujita wrote:
>>>>>> (2018/08/08 17:30), Kyotaro HORIGUCHI wrote:
>>>
>>>>> I spent more time looking at the patch. ISTM that the patch well
>>>>> suppresses the effect of the tuple-descriptor expansion by making
>>>>> changes to code in the planner and executor (and ruleutils.c), but I'm
>>>>> still not sure that the patch is the right direction to go in, because
>>>>> ISTM that expanding the tuple descriptor on the fly might be a wart.
>>>
>>>> The exapansion should be safe if the expanded descriptor has the
>>>> same defitions for base columns and all the extended coulumns are
>>>> junks. The junk columns should be ignored by unrelated nodes and
>>>> they are passed safely as far as ForeignModify passes tuples as
>>>> is from underlying ForeignScan to ForeignUpdate/Delete.
>>>
>>> I'm not sure that would be really safe. Does that work well when
>>> EvalPlanQual, for example?

I was wrong here; I assumed here that we supported late locking for an 
UPDATE or DELETE on a foreign table, and I was a bit concerned that the 
approach you proposed might not work well with EvalPlanQual, but as 
described in fdwhandler.sgml, the core doesn't support for that:

      For an <command>UPDATE</command> or <command>DELETE</command> on a 
foreign table, it
      is recommended that the <literal>ForeignScan</literal> operation 
on the target
      table perform early locking on the rows that it fetches, perhaps 
via the
      equivalent of <command>SELECT FOR UPDATE</command>.  An FDW can 
detect whether
      a table is an <command>UPDATE</command>/<command>DELETE</command> 
target at plan time
      by comparing its relid to 
<literal>root->parse->resultRelation</literal>,
      or at execution time by using 
<function>ExecRelationIsTargetRelation()</function>.
      An alternative possibility is to perform late locking within the
      <function>ExecForeignUpdate</function> or 
<function>ExecForeignDelete</function>
      callback, but no special support is provided for this.

So, there would be no need to consider about EvalPlanQual.  Sorry for 
the noise.

Best regards,
Etsuro Fujita