Re: Add SPLIT PARTITION/MERGE PARTITIONS commands

Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov@gmail.com>

From: Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov@gmail.com>
To: Dmitry Koval <d.koval@postgrespro.ru>
Cc: Alexander Lakhin <exclusion@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2024-04-11T14:21:17Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

Commits

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  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.

Hi, Dmitry!

On Thu, Apr 11, 2024 at 4:27 PM Dmitry Koval <d.koval@postgrespro.ru> wrote:
> 1.
> Alexander Lakhin sent a question about index name after MERGE (partition
> name is the same as one of the merged partitions):
>
> ----start of quote----
> I'm also confused by an index name after MERGE:
> CREATE TABLE t (i int) PARTITION BY RANGE (i);
>
> CREATE TABLE tp_0_1 PARTITION OF t FOR VALUES FROM (0) TO (1);
> CREATE TABLE tp_1_2 PARTITION OF t FOR VALUES FROM (1) TO (2);
>
> CREATE INDEX tidx ON t(i);
> ALTER TABLE t MERGE PARTITIONS (tp_1_2, tp_0_1) INTO tp_1_2;
> \d+ t*
>
>                                           Table "public.tp_1_2"
>   Column |  Type   | Collation | Nullable | Default | Storage |
> Compression | Stats target | Description
> --------+---------+-----------+----------+---------+---------+-------------+--------------+-------------
>   i      | integer |           |          |         | plain   |
>     |              |
> Partition of: t FOR VALUES FROM (0) TO (2)
> Partition constraint: ((i IS NOT NULL) AND (i >= 0) AND (i < 2))
> Indexes:
>      "merge-16385-3A14B2-tmp_i_idx" btree (i)
>
> Is the name "merge-16385-3A14B2-tmp_i_idx" valid or it's something
> temporary?
> ----end of quote----
>
> Fix for this case added to file
> v3-0001-Fix-for-SPLIT-MERGE-partitions-of-temporary-table.patch.
>
> ----
>
> 2.
>  >It seems to me that v2-0001-Fix-for-SPLIT-MERGE-partitions-of-
>  >temporary-table.patch is not complete either.
>
> Added correction (and test), see
> v3-0001-Fix-for-SPLIT-MERGE-partitions-of-temporary-table.patch.

Thank you, I'll review this later today.

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Regards,
Alexander Korotkov