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* Support OID system column in postgres_fdw.Heikki Linnakangas2016-08-26
| | | | | | | | | | You can use ALTER FOREIGN TABLE SET WITH OIDS on a foreign table, but the oid column read out as zeros, because the postgres_fdw didn't know about it. Teach postgres_fdw how to fetch it. Etsuro Fujita, with an additional test case by me. Discussion: <56E90A76.5000503@lab.ntt.co.jp>
* postgres_fdw: Cosmetic cleanup.Robert Haas2016-08-24
| | | | Etsuro Fujita
* Fix assorted fallout from IS [NOT] NULL patch.Tom Lane2016-07-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Commits 4452000f3 et al established semantics for NullTest.argisrow that are a bit different from its initial conception: rather than being merely a cache of whether we've determined the input to have composite type, the flag now has the further meaning that we should apply field-by-field testing as per the standard's definition of IS [NOT] NULL. If argisrow is false and yet the input has composite type, the construct instead has the semantics of IS [NOT] DISTINCT FROM NULL. Update the comments in primnodes.h to clarify this, and fix ruleutils.c and deparse.c to print such cases correctly. In the case of ruleutils.c, this merely results in cosmetic changes in EXPLAIN output, since the case can't currently arise in stored rules. However, it represents a live bug for deparse.c, which would formerly have sent a remote query that had semantics different from the local behavior. (From the user's standpoint, this means that testing a remote nested-composite column for null-ness could have had unexpected recursive behavior much like that fixed in 4452000f3.) In a related but somewhat independent fix, make plancat.c set argisrow to false in all NullTest expressions constructed to represent "attnotnull" constructs. Since attnotnull is actually enforced as a simple null-value check, this is a more accurate representation of the semantics; we were previously overpromising what it meant for composite columns, which might possibly lead to incorrect planner optimizations. (It seems that what the SQL spec expects a NOT NULL constraint to mean is an IS NOT NULL test, so arguably we are violating the spec and should fix attnotnull to do the other thing. If we ever do, this part should get reverted.) Back-patch, same as the previous commit. Discussion: <10682.1469566308@sss.pgh.pa.us>
* Fix typo in comment.Fujii Masao2016-07-25
| | | | Author: Masahiko Sawada
* postgres_fdw: Remove schema-qualification from cast to text.Robert Haas2016-07-01
| | | | | | As pointed out by Ashutosh Bapat, the header comments for this file say that schema-qualification is needed for all and only those types outside pg_catalog. pg_catalog.text is not outside pg_catalog.
* postgres_fdw: Fix incorrect NULL handling in join pushdown.Robert Haas2016-06-24
| | | | | | | | | | something.* IS NOT NULL means that every attribute of the row is not NULL, not that the row itself is non-NULL (e.g. because it's coming from below an outer join. Use (somevar.*)::pg_catalog.text IS NOT NULL instead. Ashutosh Bapat, per a report by Rushabh Lathia. Reviewed by Amit Langote and Etsuro Fujita. Schema-qualification added by me.
* postgres_fdw: Remove useless return statement.Robert Haas2016-06-24
| | | | Etsuro Fujita
* postgres_fdw: Check PlaceHolderVars before pushing down a join.Robert Haas2016-06-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | As discovered by Andreas Seltenreich via sqlsmith, it's possible for a remote join to need to generate a target list which contains a PlaceHolderVar which would need to be evaluated on the remote server. This happens when we try to push down a join tree which contains outer joins and the nullable side of the join contains a subquery which evauates some expression which can go to NULL above the level of the join. Since the deparsing logic can't build a remote query that involves subqueries, it fails while trying to produce an SQL query that can be sent to the remote side. Detect such cases and don't try to push down the join at all. It's actually fine to push down the join if the PlaceHolderVar needs to be evaluated at the current join level. This patch makes a small change to build_tlist_to_deparse so that this case will work. Amit Langote, Ashutosh Bapat, and me.
* postgres_fdw: Promote an Assert() to elog().Robert Haas2016-06-14
| | | | | | | | | | Andreas Seltenreich reports that it is possible for a PlaceHolderVar to creep into this tlist, and I fear that even after that's fixed we might have other, similar bugs in this area either now or in the future. There's a lot of action-at-a-distance here, because the validity of this assertion depends on core planner behavior; so, let's use elog() to make sure we catch this even in non-assert builds, rather than just crashing.
* pgindent run for 9.6Robert Haas2016-06-09
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* postgres_fdw: Clean up handling of system columns.Robert Haas2016-04-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Previously, querying the xmin column of a single postgres_fdw foreign table fetched the tuple length, xmax the typmod, and cmin or cmax the composite type OID of the tuple. However, when you queried several such tables and the join got shipped to the remote side, these columns ended up containing the remote values of the corresponding columns. Both behaviors are rather unprincipled, the former for obvious reasons and the latter because the remote values of these columns don't have any local significance; our transaction IDs are in a different space than those of the remote machine. Clean this up by setting all of these fields to 0 in both cases. Also fix the handling of tableoid to be sane. Robert Haas and Ashutosh Bapat, reviewed by Etsuro Fujita.
* Clean up some Coverity complaints about commit 0bf3ae88af330496.Tom Lane2016-03-21
| | | | | | | | | The two get_tle_by_resno() calls introduced by this commit lacked any check for a NULL return, unlike any other calls of that function anywhere in our tree. Coverity quite properly complained about it. Also fix a misindented line in process_query_params(), which Coverity also complained about on the grounds that the bad indentation suggested possible programmer misinterpretation.
* Directly modify foreign tables.Robert Haas2016-03-18
| | | | | | | | | postgres_fdw can now sent an UPDATE or DELETE statement directly to the foreign server in simple cases, rather than sending a SELECT FOR UPDATE statement and then updating or deleting rows one-by-one. Etsuro Fujita, reviewed by Rushabh Lathia, Shigeru Hanada, Kyotaro Horiguchi, Albe Laurenz, Thom Brown, and me.
* Rethink representation of PathTargets.Tom Lane2016-03-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | In commit 19a541143a09c067 I did not make PathTarget a subtype of Node, and embedded a RelOptInfo's reltarget directly into it rather than having a separately-allocated Node. In hindsight that was misguided micro-optimization, enabled by the fact that at that point we didn't have any Paths with custom PathTargets. Now that PathTarget processing has been fleshed out some more, it's easier to see that it's better to have PathTarget as an indepedent Node type, even if it does cost us one more palloc to create a RelOptInfo. So change it while we still can. This commit just changes the representation, without doing anything more interesting than that.
* Refactor pull_var_clause's API to make it less tedious to extend.Tom Lane2016-03-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In commit 1d97c19a0f748e94 and later c1d9579dd8bf3c92, we extended pull_var_clause's API by adding enum-type arguments. That's sort of a pain to maintain, though, because it means every time we add a new behavior we must touch every last one of the call sites, even if there's a reasonable default behavior that most of them could use. Let's switch over to using a bitmask of flags, instead; that seems more maintainable and might save a nanosecond or two as well. This commit changes no behavior in itself, though I'm going to follow it up with one that does add a new behavior. In passing, remove flatten_tlist(), which has not been used since 9.1 and would otherwise need the same API changes. Removing these enums means that optimizer/tlist.h no longer needs to depend on optimizer/var.h. Changing that caused a number of C files to need addition of #include "optimizer/var.h" (probably we can thank old runs of pgrminclude for that); but on balance it seems like a good change anyway.
* postgres_fdw: When sending ORDER BY, always include NULLS FIRST/LAST.Robert Haas2016-03-04
| | | | | | | | | Previously, we included NULLS FIRST when appropriate but relied on the default behavior to be NULLS LAST. This is, however, not true for a sort in descending order and seems like a fragile assumption anyway. Report by Rajkumar Raghuwanshi. Patch by Ashutosh Bapat. Review comments from Michael Paquier and Tom Lane.
* Add an explicit representation of the output targetlist to Paths.Tom Lane2016-02-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Up to now, there's been an assumption that all Paths for a given relation compute the same output column set (targetlist). However, there are good reasons to remove that assumption. For example, an indexscan on an expression index might be able to return the value of an expensive function "for free". While we have the ability to generate such a plan today in simple cases, we don't have a way to model that it's cheaper than a plan that computes the function from scratch, nor a way to create such a plan in join cases (where the function computation would normally happen at the topmost join node). Also, we need this so that we can have Paths representing post-scan/join steps, where the targetlist may well change from one step to the next. Therefore, invent a "struct PathTarget" representing the columns we expect a plan step to emit. It's convenient to include the output tuple width and tlist evaluation cost in this struct, and there will likely be additional fields in future. While Path nodes that actually do have custom outputs will need their own PathTargets, it will still be true that most Paths for a given relation will compute the same tlist. To reduce the overhead added by this patch, keep a "default PathTarget" in RelOptInfo, and allow Paths that compute that column set to just point to their parent RelOptInfo's reltarget. (In the patch as committed, actually every Path is like that, since we do not yet have any cases of custom PathTargets.) I took this opportunity to provide some more-honest costing of PlaceHolderVar evaluation. Up to now, the assumption that "scan/join reltargetlists have cost zero" was applied not only to Vars, where it's reasonable, but also PlaceHolderVars where it isn't. Now, we add the eval cost of a PlaceHolderVar's expression to the first plan level where it can be computed, by including it in the PathTarget cost field and adding that to the cost estimates for Paths. This isn't perfect yet but it's much better than before, and there is a way forward to improve it more. This costing change affects the join order chosen for a couple of the regression tests, changing expected row ordering.
* Add missing "static" qualifier.Tom Lane2016-02-12
| | | | Per buildfarm member pademelon.
* postgres_fdw: Push down joins to remote servers.Robert Haas2016-02-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If we've got a relatively straightforward join between two tables, this pushes that join down to the remote server instead of fetching the rows for each table and performing the join locally. Some cases are not handled yet, such as SEMI and ANTI joins. Also, we don't yet attempt to create presorted join paths or parameterized join paths even though these options do get tried for a base relation scan. Nevertheless, this seems likely to be a very significant win in many practical cases. Shigeru Hanada and Ashutosh Bapat, reviewed by Robert Haas, with additional review at various points by Tom Lane, Etsuro Fujita, KaiGai Kohei, and Jeevan Chalke.
* Add missing "static" qualifier.Tom Lane2016-02-06
| | | | Per buildfarm member pademelon.
* postgres_fdw: Avoid possible misbehavior when RETURNING tableoid column only.Robert Haas2016-02-04
| | | | | | | | deparseReturningList ended up adding up RETURNING NULL to the code, but code elsewhere saw an empty list of attributes and concluded that it should not expect tuples from the remote side. Etsuro Fujita and Robert Haas, reviewed by Thom Brown
* postgres_fdw: More preliminary refactoring for upcoming join pushdown.Robert Haas2016-01-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | The code that generates a complete SQL query for a given foreign relation was repeated in two places, and they didn't quite agree: the EXPLAIN case left out the locking clause. Centralize the code so we get the same behavior everywhere, and adjust calling conventions and which functions are static vs. extern accordingly . Centralize the code so we get the same behavior everywhere, and adjust calling conventions and which functions are static vs. extern accordingly. Ashutosh Bapat, reviewed and slightly adjusted by me.
* postgres_fdw: Refactor deparsing code for locking clauses.Robert Haas2016-01-28
| | | | | | | | | | The upcoming patch to allow join pushdown in postgres_fdw needs to use this code multiple times, which requires moving it to deparse.c. That seems like a good idea anyway, so do that now both on general principle and to simplify the future patch. Inspired by a patch by Shigeru Hanada and Ashutosh Bapat, but I did it a little differently than what that patch did.
* Update copyright for 2016Bruce Momjian2016-01-02
| | | | Backpatch certain files through 9.1
* Allow postgres_fdw to ship extension funcs/operators for remote execution.Tom Lane2015-11-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The user can whitelist specified extension(s) in the foreign server's options, whereupon we will treat immutable functions and operators of those extensions as candidates to be sent for remote execution. Whitelisting an extension in this way basically promises that the extension exists on the remote server and behaves compatibly with the local instance. We have no way to prove that formally, so we have to rely on the user to get it right. But this seems like something that people can usually get right in practice. We might in future allow functions and operators to be whitelisted individually, but extension granularity is a very convenient special case, so it got done first. The patch as-committed lacks any regression tests, which is unfortunate, but introducing dependencies on other extensions for testing purposes would break "make installcheck" scenarios, which is worse. I have some ideas about klugy ways around that, but it seems like material for a separate patch. For the moment, leave the problem open. Paul Ramsey, hacked up a bit more by me
* postgres_fdw: Add ORDER BY to some remote SQL queries.Robert Haas2015-11-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If the join problem's entire ORDER BY clause can be pushed to the remote server, consider a path that adds this ORDER BY clause. If use_remote_estimate is on, we cost this path using an additional remote EXPLAIN. If not, we just estimate that the path costs 20% more, which is intended to be large enough that we won't request a remote sort when it's not helpful, but small enough that we'll have the remote side do the sort when in doubt. In some cases, the remote sort might actually be free, because the remote query plan might happen to produce output that is ordered the way we need, but without remote estimates we have no way of knowing that. It might also be useful to request sorted output from the remote side if it enables an efficient merge join, but this patch doesn't attempt to handle that case. Ashutosh Bapat with revisions by me. Also reviewed by Fabrízio de Royes Mello and Jeevan Chalke.
* Improve handling of collations in contrib/postgres_fdw.Tom Lane2015-09-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If we have a local Var of say varchar type with default collation, and we apply a RelabelType to convert that to text with default collation, we don't want to consider that as creating an FDW_COLLATE_UNSAFE situation. It should be okay to compare that to a remote Var, so long as the remote Var determines the comparison collation. (When we actually ship such an expression to the remote side, the local Var would become a Param with default collation, meaning the remote Var would in fact control the comparison collation, because non-default implicit collation overrides default implicit collation in parse_collate.c.) To fix, be more precise about what FDW_COLLATE_NONE means: it applies either to a noncollatable data type or to a collatable type with default collation, if that collation can't be traced to a remote Var. (When it can, FDW_COLLATE_SAFE is appropriate.) We were essentially using that interpretation already at the Var/Const/Param level, but we weren't bubbling it up properly. An alternative fix would be to introduce a separate FDW_COLLATE_DEFAULT value to describe the second situation, but that would add more code without changing the actual behavior, so it didn't seem worthwhile. Also, since we're clarifying the rule to be that we care about whether operator/function input collations match, there seems no need to fail immediately upon seeing a Const/Param/non-foreign-Var with nondefault collation. We only have to reject if it appears in a collation-sensitive context (for example, "var IS NOT NULL" is perfectly safe from a collation standpoint, whatever collation the var has). So just set the state to UNSAFE rather than failing immediately. Per report from Jeevan Chalke. This essentially corrects some sloppy thinking in commit ed3ddf918b59545583a4b374566bc1148e75f593, so back-patch to 9.3 where that logic appeared.
* Add support for INSERT ... ON CONFLICT DO NOTHING/UPDATE.Andres Freund2015-05-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The newly added ON CONFLICT clause allows to specify an alternative to raising a unique or exclusion constraint violation error when inserting. ON CONFLICT refers to constraints that can either be specified using a inference clause (by specifying the columns of a unique constraint) or by naming a unique or exclusion constraint. DO NOTHING avoids the constraint violation, without touching the pre-existing row. DO UPDATE SET ... [WHERE ...] updates the pre-existing tuple, and has access to both the tuple proposed for insertion and the existing tuple; the optional WHERE clause can be used to prevent an update from being executed. The UPDATE SET and WHERE clauses have access to the tuple proposed for insertion using the "magic" EXCLUDED alias, and to the pre-existing tuple using the table name or its alias. This feature is often referred to as upsert. This is implemented using a new infrastructure called "speculative insertion". It is an optimistic variant of regular insertion that first does a pre-check for existing tuples and then attempts an insert. If a violating tuple was inserted concurrently, the speculatively inserted tuple is deleted and a new attempt is made. If the pre-check finds a matching tuple the alternative DO NOTHING or DO UPDATE action is taken. If the insertion succeeds without detecting a conflict, the tuple is deemed inserted. To handle the possible ambiguity between the excluded alias and a table named excluded, and for convenience with long relation names, INSERT INTO now can alias its target table. Bumps catversion as stored rules change. Author: Peter Geoghegan, with significant contributions from Heikki Linnakangas and Andres Freund. Testing infrastructure by Jeff Janes. Reviewed-By: Heikki Linnakangas, Andres Freund, Robert Haas, Simon Riggs, Dean Rasheed, Stephen Frost and many others.
* Remove spurious semicolons.Heikki Linnakangas2015-03-31
| | | | Petr Jelinek
* Update copyright for 2015Bruce Momjian2015-01-06
| | | | Backpatch certain files through 9.0
* Fix mishandling of system columns in FDW queries.Tom Lane2014-11-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | postgres_fdw would send query conditions involving system columns to the remote server, even though it makes no effort to ensure that system columns other than CTID match what the remote side thinks. tableoid, in particular, probably won't match and might have some use in queries. Hence, prevent sending conditions that include non-CTID system columns. Also, create_foreignscan_plan neglected to check local restriction conditions while determining whether to set fsSystemCol for a foreign scan plan node. This again would bollix the results for queries that test a foreign table's tableoid. Back-patch the first fix to 9.3 where postgres_fdw was introduced. Back-patch the second to 9.2. The code is probably broken in 9.1 as well, but the patch doesn't apply cleanly there; given the weak state of support for FDWs in 9.1, it doesn't seem worth fixing. Etsuro Fujita, reviewed by Ashutosh Bapat, and somewhat modified by me
* postgres_fdw.h: don't pull in rel.h when relcache.h is enoughAlvaro Herrera2014-11-14
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* Implement IMPORT FOREIGN SCHEMA.Tom Lane2014-07-10
| | | | | | | | | | | This command provides an automated way to create foreign table definitions that match remote tables, thereby reducing tedium and chances for error. In this patch, we provide the necessary core-server infrastructure and implement the feature fully in the postgres_fdw foreign-data wrapper. Other wrappers will throw a "feature not supported" error until/unless they are updated. Ronan Dunklau and Michael Paquier, additional work by me
* Avoid recursion when processing simple lists of AND'ed or OR'ed clauses.Tom Lane2014-06-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Since most of the system thinks AND and OR are N-argument expressions anyway, let's have the grammar generate a representation of that form when dealing with input like "x AND y AND z AND ...", rather than generating a deeply-nested binary tree that just has to be flattened later by the planner. This avoids stack overflow in parse analysis when dealing with queries having more than a few thousand such clauses; and in any case it removes some rather unsightly inconsistencies, since some parts of parse analysis were generating N-argument ANDs/ORs already. It's still possible to get a stack overflow with weirdly parenthesized input, such as "x AND (y AND (z AND ( ... )))", but such cases are not mainstream usage. The maximum depth of parenthesization is already limited by Bison's stack in such cases, anyway, so that the limit is probably fairly platform-independent. Patch originally by Gurjeet Singh, heavily revised by me
* pgindent run for 9.4Bruce Momjian2014-05-06
| | | | | This includes removing tabs after periods in C comments, which was applied to back branches, so this change should not effect backpatching.
* Fix contrib/postgres_fdw's remote-estimate representation of array Params.Tom Lane2014-04-16
| | | | | | | | | | | We were emitting "(SELECT null::typename)", which is usually interpreted as a scalar subselect, but not so much in the context "x = ANY(...)". This led to remote-side parsing failures when remote_estimate is enabled. A quick and ugly fix is to stick in an extra cast step, "((SELECT null::typename)::typename)". The cast will be thrown away as redundant by parse analysis, but not before it's done its job of making sure the grammar sees the ANY argument as an a_expr rather than a select_with_parens. Per an example from Hannu Krosing.
* Fix non-equivalence of VARIADIC and non-VARIADIC function call formats.Tom Lane2014-04-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | For variadic functions (other than VARIADIC ANY), the syntaxes foo(x,y,...) and foo(VARIADIC ARRAY[x,y,...]) should be considered equivalent, since the former is converted to the latter at parse time. They have indeed been equivalent, in all releases before 9.3. However, commit 75b39e790 made an ill-considered decision to record which syntax had been used in FuncExpr nodes, and then to make equal() test that in checking node equality --- which caused the syntaxes to not be seen as equivalent by the planner. This is the underlying cause of bug #9817 from Dmitry Ryabov. It might seem that a quick fix would be to make equal() disregard FuncExpr.funcvariadic, but the same commit made that untenable, because the field actually *is* semantically significant for some VARIADIC ANY functions. This patch instead adopts the approach of redefining funcvariadic (and aggvariadic, in HEAD) as meaning that the last argument is a variadic array, whether it got that way by parser intervention or was supplied explicitly by the user. Therefore the value will always be true for non-ANY variadic functions, restoring the principle of equivalence. (However, the planner will continue to consider use of VARIADIC as a meaningful difference for VARIADIC ANY functions, even though some such functions might disregard it.) In HEAD, this change lets us simplify the decompilation logic in ruleutils.c, since the funcvariadic/aggvariadic flag tells directly whether to print VARIADIC. However, in 9.3 we have to continue to cope with existing stored rules/views that might contain the previous definition. Fortunately, this just means no change in ruleutils.c, since its existing behavior effectively ignores funcvariadic for all cases other than VARIADIC ANY functions. In HEAD, bump catversion to reflect the fact that FuncExpr.funcvariadic changed meanings; this is sort of pro forma, since I don't believe any built-in views are affected. Unfortunately, this patch doesn't magically fix everything for affected 9.3 users. After installing 9.3.5, they might need to recreate their rules/views/indexes containing variadic function calls in order to get everything consistent with the new definition. As in the cited bug, the symptom of a problem would be failure to use a nominally matching index that has a variadic function call in its definition. We'll need to mention this in the 9.3.5 release notes.
* Offer triggers on foreign tables.Noah Misch2014-03-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This covers all the SQL-standard trigger types supported for regular tables; it does not cover constraint triggers. The approach for acquiring the old row mirrors that for view INSTEAD OF triggers. For AFTER ROW triggers, we spool the foreign tuples to a tuplestore. This changes the FDW API contract; when deciding which columns to populate in the slot returned from data modification callbacks, writable FDWs will need to check for AFTER ROW triggers in addition to checking for a RETURNING clause. In support of the feature addition, refactor the TriggerFlags bits and the assembly of old tuples in ModifyTable. Ronan Dunklau, reviewed by KaiGai Kohei; some additional hacking by me.
* Fix contrib/postgres_fdw to handle multiple join conditions properly.Tom Lane2014-03-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The previous coding supposed that it could consider just a single join condition in any one parameterized path for the foreign table. But in reality, the parameterized-path machinery forces all join clauses that are "movable to" the foreign table to be evaluated at that node; including clauses that we might not consider safe to send across. Such cases would result in an Assert failure in an assert-enabled build, and otherwise in sending an unsafe clause to the foreign server, which might result in errors or silently-wrong answers. A lesser problem was that the cost/rowcount estimates generated for the parameterized path failed to account for any additional join quals that get assigned to the scan. To fix, rewrite postgresGetForeignPaths so that it correctly collects all the movable quals for any one outer relation when generating parameterized paths; we'll now generate just one path per outer relation not one per join qual. Also fix bogus assumptions in postgresGetForeignPlan and estimate_path_cost_size that only safe-to-send join quals will be presented. Based on complaint from Etsuro Fujita that the path costs were being miscalculated, though this is significantly different from his proposed patch.
* Update copyright for 2014Bruce Momjian2014-01-07
| | | | | Update all files in head, and files COPYRIGHT and legal.sgml in all back branches.
* Use appendStringInfoString instead of appendStringInfo where possible.Robert Haas2013-10-31
| | | | | | | This shaves a few cycles, and generally seems like good programming practice. David Rowley
* Avoid retrieving dummy NULL columns in postgres_fdw.Tom Lane2013-03-22
| | | | | | | This should provide some marginal overall savings, since it surely takes many more cycles for the remote server to deal with the NULL columns than it takes for postgres_fdw not to emit them. But really the reason is to keep the emitted queries from looking quite so silly ...
* Redo postgres_fdw's planner code so it can handle parameterized paths.Tom Lane2013-03-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | I wasn't going to ship this without having at least some example of how to do that. This version isn't terribly bright; in particular it won't consider any combinations of multiple join clauses. Given the cost of executing a remote EXPLAIN, I'm not sure we want to be very aggressive about doing that, anyway. In support of this, refactor generate_implied_equalities_for_indexcol so that it can be used to extract equivalence clauses that aren't necessarily tied to an index.
* Introduce less-bogus handling of collations in contrib/postgres_fdw.Tom Lane2013-03-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | Treat expressions as being remotely executable only if all collations used in them are determined by Vars of the foreign table. This means that, if the foreign server gets different answers than we do, it's the user's fault for not having marked the foreign table columns with collations equivalent to the remote table's. This rule allows most simple expressions such as "var < 'constant'" to be sent to the remote side, because the constant isn't determining the collation (the Var's collation would win). There's still room for improvement, but it's hard to see how to do it without a lot more knowledge and/or assumptions about what the remote side will do.
* Fix contrib/postgres_fdw's handling of column defaults.Tom Lane2013-03-12
| | | | | | | | | Adopt the position that only locally-defined defaults matter. Any defaults defined in the remote database do not affect insertions performed through a foreign table (unless they are for columns not known to the foreign table). While it'd arguably be more useful to permit remote defaults to be used, making that work in a consistent fashion requires far more work than seems possible for 9.3.
* Fix postgres_fdw's issues with inconsistent interpretation of data values.Tom Lane2013-03-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | For datatypes whose output formatting depends on one or more GUC settings, we have to worry about whether the other server will interpret the value the same way it was meant. pg_dump has been aware of this hazard for a long time, but postgres_fdw needs to deal with it too. To fix data retrieval from the remote server, set the necessary remote GUC settings at connection startup. (We were already assuming that settings made then would persist throughout the remote session.) To fix data transmission to the remote server, temporarily force the relevant GUCs to the right values when we're about to convert any data values to text for transmission. This is all pretty grotty, and not very cheap either. It's tempting to think of defining one uber-GUC that would override any settings that might render printed data values unportable. But of course, older remote servers wouldn't know any such thing and would still need this logic. While at it, revert commit f7951eef89be78c50ea2241f593d76dfefe176c9, since this provides a real fix. (The timestamptz given in the error message returned from the "remote" server will now reliably be shown in UTC.)
* Avoid generating bad remote SQL for INSERT ... DEFAULT VALUES.Tom Lane2013-03-11
| | | | "INSERT INTO foo() VALUES ()" is invalid syntax, so don't do that.
* Support writable foreign tables.Tom Lane2013-03-10
| | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds the core-system infrastructure needed to support updates on foreign tables, and extends contrib/postgres_fdw to allow updates against remote Postgres servers. There's still a great deal of room for improvement in optimization of remote updates, but at least there's basic functionality there now. KaiGai Kohei, reviewed by Alexander Korotkov and Laurenz Albe, and rather heavily revised by Tom Lane.
* Fix some planning oversights in postgres_fdw.Tom Lane2013-02-22
| | | | | | | | | | | Include eval costs of local conditions in remote-estimate mode, and don't assume the remote eval cost is zero in local-estimate mode. (The best we can do with that at the moment is to assume a seqscan, which may well be wildly pessimistic ... but zero won't do at all.) To get a reasonable local estimate, we need to know the relpages count for the remote rel, so improve the ANALYZE code to fetch that rather than just setting the foreign table's relpages field to zero.
* Fix whole-row references in postgres_fdw.Tom Lane2013-02-22
| | | | | The optimization to not retrieve unnecessary columns wasn't smart enough. Noted by Thom Brown.