Re: Add SPLIT PARTITION/MERGE PARTITIONS commands

Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov@gmail.com>

From: Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov@gmail.com>
To: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Cc: Dmitry Koval <d.koval@postgrespro.ru>, pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2024-08-08T22:43:11Z
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.

On Thu, Aug 8, 2024 at 8:14 PM Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 07, 2024 at 01:22:51AM +0300, Alexander Korotkov wrote:
> > I've pushed 0001 and 0002
>
> The partition MERGE (1adf16b8f) and SPLIT (87c21bb94) v17 patches introduced
> createPartitionTable() with this code:
>
>         createStmt->relation = newPartName;
> ...
>         wrapper->utilityStmt = (Node *) createStmt;
> ...
>         ProcessUtility(wrapper,
> ...
>         newRel = table_openrv(newPartName, NoLock);
>
> This breaks from the CVE-2014-0062 (commit 5f17304) principle of not repeating
> name lookups.  The attached demo uses this defect to make one partition have
> two parents.

Thank you for a valuable report.  I will dig into and fix that.

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Regards,
Alexander Korotkov
Supabase