Re: ON CONFLICT DO UPDATE for partitioned tables

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
To: Amit Langote <Langote_Amit_f8@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: Pavan Deolasee <pavan.deolasee@gmail.com>, Etsuro Fujita <fujita.etsuro@lab.ntt.co.jp>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Date: 2018-04-19T17:20:54Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Amit Langote wrote:

> Yeah, I too have wondered in the past what it would take to make
> equalTupDescs() return true for parent and partitions.  Maybe we can make
> it work by looking a bit harder than I did then.

How about simply relaxing the tdtypeid test from equalTupleDescs?  I
haven't looked deeply but I think just checking whether or not both are
RECORDOID might be sufficient, for typecache purposes.

If we just remove the tdtypeid test, check-world passes.

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Commits

  1. Remove quick path in ExecInitPartitionInfo for equal tupdescs

  2. Ignore whole-rows in INSERT/CONFLICT with partitioned tables

  3. Handle INSERT .. ON CONFLICT with partitioned tables

  4. Remove unnecessary members from ModifyTableState and ExecInsert