Re: ExecRTCheckPerms() and many prunable partitions

Amit Langote <amitlangote09@gmail.com>

From: Amit Langote <amitlangote09@gmail.com>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>, Greg Stark <stark@mit.edu>, Zhihong Yu <zyu@yugabyte.com>, Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123@gmail.com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2022-10-13T08:14:30Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Wed, Oct 12, 2022 at 10:50 PM Peter Eisentraut
<peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
> On 06.10.22 15:29, Amit Langote wrote:
> > I tried in the attached 0004.  ModifyTable gets a new member
> > extraUpdatedColsBitmaps, which is List of Bitmapset "nodes".
> >
> > Actually, List of Bitmapsets turned out to be something that doesn't
> > just-work with our Node infrastructure, which I found out thanks to
> > -DWRITE_READ_PARSE_PLAN_TREES.  So, I had to go ahead and add
> > first-class support for copy/equal/write/read support for Bitmapsets,
> > such that writeNode() can write appropriately labeled versions of them
> > and nodeRead() can read them as Bitmapsets.  That's done in 0003.  I
> > didn't actually go ahead and make*all*  Bitmapsets in the plan trees
> > to be Nodes, but maybe 0003 can be expanded to do that.  We won't need
> > to make gen_node_support.pl emit *_BITMAPSET_FIELD() blurbs then; can
> > just use *_NODE_FIELD().
>
> Seeing that on 64-bit platforms we have a 4-byte padding gap in the
> Bitmapset struct, sticking a node tag in there seems pretty sensible.
> So turning Bitmapset into a proper Node and then making the other
> adjustments you describe makes sense to me.
>
> Making a new thread about this might be best.
>
> (I can't currently comment on the rest of the patch set.  So I don't
> know if you'll really end up needing lists of bitmapsets.  But from here
> it looks like turning bitmapsets into nodes might be a worthwhile change
> just by itself.)

Ok, thanks.  I'll start a new thread about it.

-- 
Thanks, Amit Langote
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Commits

  1. Add a test case for a316a3bc

  2. Correctly set userid of subquery relations' child rels

  3. Fix buggy recursion in flatten_rtes_walker().

  4. Remove some dead code in selfuncs.c

  5. Update outdated comment in ApplyRetrieveRule

  6. Rework query relation permission checking

  7. Generalize ri_RootToPartitionMap to use for non-partition children

  8. Stop accessing checkAsUser via RTE in some cases

  9. Add 'missing_ok' argument to build_attrmap_by_name