Re: [HACKERS] Add support for tuple routing to foreign partitions

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: Etsuro Fujita <fujita.etsuro@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>, Maksim Milyutin <milyutinma@gmail.com>, "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Amit Langote <Langote_Amit_f8@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Date: 2018-03-23T12:56:49Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 8:22 AM, Etsuro Fujita
<fujita.etsuro@lab.ntt.co.jp> wrote:
>> I think for bulk
>> inserts we'll need an API that says "here's a row, store it or buffer
>> it as you like" and then another API that says "flush any buffered
>> rows to the actual table and perform any necessary cleanup".  Or maybe
>> in postgres_fdw the first API could start a COPY if not already done
>> and send the row, and the second one could end the COPY.
> That's really what I have in mind.

So let's do it.

-- 
Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company


Commits

  1. Allow insert and update tuple routing and COPY for foreign tables.

  2. Refactor PgFdwModifyState creation/destruction into separate functions.