Re: DELETE/UPDATE FOR PORTION OF with rule system is not working

jian he <jian.universality@gmail.com>

From: jian he <jian.universality@gmail.com>
To: Kirill Reshke <reshkekirill@gmail.com>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Paul A Jungwirth <pj@illuminatedcomputing.com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
Date: 2026-04-13T09:01:06Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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hi.
Actually it's supported.

The issue mentioned in the first email is caused by:
https://git.postgresql.org/cgit/postgresql.git/commit/?id=8e72d914c52876525a90b28444453de8085c866f
https://git.postgresql.org/cgit/postgresql.git/diff/src/backend/nodes/nodeFuncs.c?id=8e72d914c52876525a90b28444453de8085c866f

--- a/src/backend/nodes/nodeFuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/nodes/nodeFuncs.c
@@ -2579,6 +2579,20 @@ expression_tree_walker_impl(Node *node,
return true;
}
break;
+ case T_ForPortionOfExpr:
+ {
+ ForPortionOfExpr *forPortionOf = (ForPortionOfExpr *) node;
+
+ if (WALK(forPortionOf->targetFrom))
+ return true;
+ if (WALK(forPortionOf->targetTo))
+ return true;
+ if (WALK(forPortionOf->targetRange))
+ return true;
+ if (WALK(forPortionOf->overlapsExpr))
+ return true;
+ }
+ break;

We forgot to WALK (expression_tree_walker_impl)
ForPortionOfExpr->rangeVar and ForPortionOfExpr->rangeTargetList.
We need to WALK those two fields of ForPortionOfExpr in
rewriteRuleAction (ChangeVarNodes,
ReplaceVarsFromTargetList, etc.), and maybe elsewhere.

i am surprised that nothing else has broken because of this.



--
jian
https://www.enterprisedb.com/

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  1. Fix DELETE/UPDATE FOR PORTION OF with rules

  2. Add UPDATE/DELETE FOR PORTION OF