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2013-03-11Fix postgres_fdw's issues with inconsistent interpretation of data values.Tom Lane
For datatypes whose output formatting depends on one or more GUC settings, we have to worry about whether the other server will interpret the value the same way it was meant. pg_dump has been aware of this hazard for a long time, but postgres_fdw needs to deal with it too. To fix data retrieval from the remote server, set the necessary remote GUC settings at connection startup. (We were already assuming that settings made then would persist throughout the remote session.) To fix data transmission to the remote server, temporarily force the relevant GUCs to the right values when we're about to convert any data values to text for transmission. This is all pretty grotty, and not very cheap either. It's tempting to think of defining one uber-GUC that would override any settings that might render printed data values unportable. But of course, older remote servers wouldn't know any such thing and would still need this logic. While at it, revert commit f7951eef89be78c50ea2241f593d76dfefe176c9, since this provides a real fix. (The timestamptz given in the error message returned from the "remote" server will now reliably be shown in UTC.)
2013-03-11Avoid generating bad remote SQL for INSERT ... DEFAULT VALUES.Tom Lane
"INSERT INTO foo() VALUES ()" is invalid syntax, so don't do that.
2013-03-10Band-aid for regression test expected-results problem with timestamptz.Tom Lane
We probably need to tell the remote server to use specific timezone and datestyle settings, and maybe other things. But for now let's just hack the postgres_fdw regression test to not provoke failures when run in non-EST5EDT environments. Per buildfarm.
2013-03-10Support writable foreign tables.Tom Lane
This patch adds the core-system infrastructure needed to support updates on foreign tables, and extends contrib/postgres_fdw to allow updates against remote Postgres servers. There's still a great deal of room for improvement in optimization of remote updates, but at least there's basic functionality there now. KaiGai Kohei, reviewed by Alexander Korotkov and Laurenz Albe, and rather heavily revised by Tom Lane.
2013-02-23Rename postgres_fdw's use_remote_explain option to use_remote_estimate.Tom Lane
The new name was originally my typo, but per discussion it seems like a better name anyway. So make the code match the docs, not vice versa.
2013-02-22Fix some planning oversights in postgres_fdw.Tom Lane
Include eval costs of local conditions in remote-estimate mode, and don't assume the remote eval cost is zero in local-estimate mode. (The best we can do with that at the moment is to assume a seqscan, which may well be wildly pessimistic ... but zero won't do at all.) To get a reasonable local estimate, we need to know the relpages count for the remote rel, so improve the ANALYZE code to fetch that rather than just setting the foreign table's relpages field to zero.
2013-02-22Fix whole-row references in postgres_fdw.Tom Lane
The optimization to not retrieve unnecessary columns wasn't smart enough. Noted by Thom Brown.
2013-02-22Change postgres_fdw to show casts as casts, not underlying function calls.Tom Lane
On reflection this method seems to be exposing an unreasonable amount of implementation detail. It wouldn't matter when talking to a remote server of the identical Postgres version, but it seems likely to make things worse not better if the remote is a different version with different casting infrastructure. Instead adopt ruleutils.c's policy of regurgitating the cast as it was originally specified; including not showing it at all, if it was implicit to start with. (We must do that because for some datatypes explicit and implicit casts have different semantics.)
2013-02-22Get rid of postgres_fdw's assumption that remote type OIDs match ours.Tom Lane
The only place we depended on that was in sending numeric type OIDs in PQexecParams; but we can replace that usage with explicitly casting each Param symbol in the query string, so that the types are specified to the remote by name not OID. This makes no immediate difference but will be essential if we ever hope to support use of non-builtin types.
2013-02-22Adjust postgres_fdw's search path handling.Tom Lane
Set the remote session's search path to exactly "pg_catalog" at session start, then schema-qualify only names that aren't in that schema. This greatly reduces clutter in the generated SQL commands, as seen in the regression test changes. Per discussion. Also, rethink use of FirstNormalObjectId as the "built-in object" cutoff --- FirstBootstrapObjectId is safer, since the former will accept objects in information_schema for instance.
2013-02-21Need to decorate XactIsoLevel as PGDLLIMPORT for postgres_fdw.Tom Lane
Per buildfarm.
2013-02-21Add postgres_fdw contrib module.Tom Lane
There's still a lot of room for improvement, but it basically works, and we need this to be present before we can do anything much with the writable-foreign-tables patch. So let's commit it and get on with testing. Shigeru Hanada, reviewed by KaiGai Kohei and Tom Lane