(2019/02/20 6:48), Tom Lane wrote:
> In the case of a standard inheritance or partition tree, this seems to
> go through really easily, since all the children could share the same
> returned CTID column (I guess you'd also need a TABLEOID column so you
> could figure out which table to direct the update back into). It gets
> a bit harder if the tree contains some foreign tables, because they might
> have different concepts of row identity, but I'd think in most cases you
> could still combine those into a small number of output columns.
If this is the direction we go in, we should work on the row ID issue
[1] before this?
Best regards,
Etsuro Fujita
[1] https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/1590.1542393315%40sss.pgh.pa.us