Allow FDWs and custom scan providers to replace joins with scans.

Foreign data wrappers can use this capability for so-called "join
pushdown"; that is, instead of executing two separate foreign scans
and then joining the results locally, they can generate a path which
performs the join on the remote server and then is scanned locally.
This commit does not extend postgres_fdw to take advantage of this
capability; it just provides the infrastructure.

Custom scan providers can use this in a similar way.  Previously,
it was only possible for a custom scan provider to scan a single
relation.  Now, it can scan an entire join tree, provided of course
that it knows how to produce the same results that the join would
have produced if executed normally.

KaiGai Kohei, reviewed by Shigeru Hanada, Ashutosh Bapat, and me.

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/src/backend/foreign/foreign.c b/src/backend/foreign/foreign.c
index cbe8b78be9e..cdbd550fd43 100644
--- a/src/backend/foreign/foreign.c
+++ b/src/backend/foreign/foreign.c
@@ -304,11 +304,11 @@ GetFdwRoutine(Oid fdwhandler)
 
 
 /*
- * GetFdwRoutineByRelId - look up the handler of the foreign-data wrapper
- * for the given foreign table, and retrieve its FdwRoutine struct.
+ * GetFdwHandlerByRelId - look up the handler of the foreign-data wrapper
+ * for the given foreign table
  */
-FdwRoutine *
-GetFdwRoutineByRelId(Oid relid)
+Oid
+GetFdwHandlerByRelId(Oid relid)
 {
 	HeapTuple	tp;
 	Form_pg_foreign_data_wrapper fdwform;
@@ -350,7 +350,18 @@ GetFdwRoutineByRelId(Oid relid)
 
 	ReleaseSysCache(tp);
 
-	/* And finally, call the handler function. */
+	return fdwhandler;
+}
+
+/*
+ * GetFdwRoutineByRelId - look up the handler of the foreign-data wrapper
+ * for the given foreign table, and retrieve its FdwRoutine struct.
+ */
+FdwRoutine *
+GetFdwRoutineByRelId(Oid relid)
+{
+	Oid			fdwhandler = GetFdwHandlerByRelId(relid);
+
 	return GetFdwRoutine(fdwhandler);
 }