Re: Allow batched insert during cross-partition updates

On Tue, Apr 6, 2021 at 6:49 PM Bharath Rupireddy
<bharath.rupireddyforpostgres@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 6, 2021 at 3:08 PM Amit Langote <amitlangote09@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Updated patch attached.  I had to adjust the test case a little bit to
> > account for the changes of 86dc90056d, something I failed to notice
> > yesterday.  Also, I expanded the test case added in postgres_fdw.sql a
> > bit to show the batching in action more explicitly.
>
> Some minor comments:

Thanks for the review.

> 1) don't we need order by clause for the selects in the tests added?
> +SELECT tableoid::regclass, * FROM batch_cp_upd_test;

Good point.  It wasn't necessary before, but it is after the test
expansion, so added.

> 3) will the cmin in the output always be the same?
> +SELECT cmin, * FROM batch_cp_upd_test3;

TBH, I am not so sure.  Maybe it's not a good idea to rely on cmin
after all.  I've rewritten the tests to use a different method of
determining if a single or multiple insert commands were used in
moving rows into foreign partitions.

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