Re: Add SPLIT PARTITION/MERGE PARTITIONS commands

Tender Wang <tndrwang@gmail.com>

From: Tender Wang <tndrwang@gmail.com>
To: Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov@gmail.com>, Dmitry Koval <d.koval@postgrespro.ru>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2024-04-08T10:43:51Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

Commits

Same data as JSON: GET /api/v1/messages/:b64id/commits the thread's linked commits as JSON, with link sources. API reference →
  1. Adjust errcode in checkPartition()

  2. Fix usage of palloc() in MERGE/SPLIT PARTITION(s) code

  3. Implement ALTER TABLE ... SPLIT PARTITION ... command

  4. Implement ALTER TABLE ... MERGE PARTITIONS ... command

  5. Calculate agglevelsup correctly when Aggref contains a CTE.

  6. Use PqMsg_* macros in applyparallelworker.c.

  7. Restrict psql meta-commands in plain-text dumps.

  8. Ensure we have a snapshot when updating various system catalogs.

  9. Use specific collation where needed in new test

  10. Expand virtual generated columns in the planner

  11. Virtual generated columns

  12. Define PG_LOGICAL_DIR for path pg_logical/ in data folder

  13. Revert support for ALTER TABLE ... MERGE/SPLIT PARTITION(S) commands

  14. Avoid repeated table name lookups in createPartitionTable()

  15. Provide deterministic order for catalog queries in partition_split.sql

  16. Don't copy extended statistics during MERGE/SPLIT partition operations

  17. Fix the name collision detection in MERGE/SPLIT partition operations

  18. Fix regression tests conflict in 3ca43dbbb6

  19. Add permission check for MERGE/SPLIT partition operations

  20. Fix one more portability shortcoming in new test_pg_dump test.

  21. Inherit parent's AM for partition MERGE/SPLIT operations

  22. Add tab completion for partition MERGE/SPLIT operations

  23. Rename tables in tests of partition MERGE/SPLIT operations

  24. Make new partitions with parent's persistence during MERGE/SPLIT

  25. Document the way partition MERGE/SPLIT operations create new partitions

  26. Change the way ATExecMergePartitions() handles the name collision

  27. Grammar fixes for split/merge partitions code

  28. Checks for ALTER TABLE ... SPLIT/MERGE PARTITIONS ... commands

  29. Fix some grammer errors from error messages and codes comments

  30. Support TZ and OF format codes in to_timestamp().

  31. Support identity columns in partitioned tables

  32. Fix indentation in twophase.c

  33. Fix corner-case planner failure for MERGE.

  34. Doc: fix documentation example for bytea hex output format.

  35. Avoid repeated name lookups during table and index DDL.

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Hi all,
  I went through the MERGE/SPLIT partition codes today, thanks for the
works.  I found some grammar errors:
 i. in error messages(Users can see this grammar errors, not friendly).
ii. in codes comments



Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov@gmail.com> 于2024年4月7日周日 06:23写道:

> Hi, Dmitry!
>
> On Fri, Apr 5, 2024 at 4:00 PM Dmitry Koval <d.koval@postgrespro.ru>
> wrote:
> > > I've revised the patchset.
> >
> > Thanks for the corrections (especially ddl.sgml).
> > Could you also look at a small optimization for the MERGE PARTITIONS
> > command (in a separate file
> > v31-0003-Additional-patch-for-ALTER-TABLE-.-MERGE-PARTITI.patch, I wrote
> > about it in an email 2024-03-31 00:56:50)?
> >
> > Files v31-0001-*.patch, v31-0002-*.patch are the same as
> > v30-0001-*.patch, v30-0002-*.patch (after rebasing because patch stopped
> > applying due to changes in upstream).
>
> I've pushed 0001 and 0002.  I didn't push 0003 for the following reasons.
> 1) This doesn't keep functionality equivalent to 0001.  With 0003, the
> merged partition will inherit indexes, constraints, and so on from the
> one of merging partitions.
> 2) This is not necessarily an optimization. Without 0003 indexes on
> the merged partition are created after moving the rows in
> attachPartitionTable(). With 0003 we merge data into the existing
> partition which saves its indexes.  That might cause a significant
> performance loss because mass inserts into indexes may be much slower
> than building indexes from scratch.
> I think both aspects need to be carefully considered.  Even if we
> accept them, this needs to be documented.  I think now it's too late
> for both of these.  So, this should wait for v18.
>
> ------
> Regards,
> Alexander Korotkov
>
>
>

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