Re: BEFORE UPDATE trigger on postgres_fdw table not work

On 2019/05/27 22:02, Tom Lane wrote:
> Amit Langote <Langote_Amit_f8@lab.ntt.co.jp> writes:
>> On 2019/05/27 10:52, Shohei Mochizuki wrote:
>>> I noticed returning a modified record in a row-level BEFORE UPDATE trigger
>>> on postgres_fdw foreign tables do not work. Attached patch fixes this issue.
>>> This is because current fdw code adds only columns to RemoteSQL that were
>>> explicitly targets of the UPDATE as follows.
> 
>> Yeah.  So, the trigger execution correctly modifies the existing tuple
>> fetched from the remote server, but those changes are then essentially
>> discarded by postgres_fdw, that is, postgresExecForeignModify().
> 
>> ... Also, in the worst case, we'll end
>> up generating new query for every row being changed, because the trigger
>> may change different columns for different rows based on some condition.
> 
> Perhaps, if the table has relevant BEFORE triggers, we should just abandon
> our attempts to optimize away fetching/storing all columns?  It seems like
> another potential hazard here is a trigger needing to read a column that
> is not mentioned in the SQL query.

The fetching side is fine, because rewriteTargetListUD() adds a
whole-row-var to the target list when the UPDATE / DELETE target is a
foreign table *and* there is a row trigger on the table.  postgres_fdw
sees that and constructs the query to fetch all columns.

So, the only problem here is the optimizing away of storing all columns,
which the Mochizuki-san's patch seems enough to fix.

Thanks,
Amit