Re: [bug?] Missed parallel safety checks, and wrong parallel safety

From: Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "houzj(dot)fnst(at)fujitsu(dot)com" <houzj(dot)fnst(at)fujitsu(dot)com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Greg Nancarrow <gregn4422(at)gmail(dot)com>, "tsunakawa(dot)takay(at)fujitsu(dot)com" <tsunakawa(dot)takay(at)fujitsu(dot)com>, Bharath Rupireddy <bharath(dot)rupireddyforpostgres(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [bug?] Missed parallel safety checks, and wrong parallel safety
Date: 2021-06-22 12:24:49
Message-ID: CAA4eK1LfjfpuYvzm1o3qiZKkmn8hdpom7cX6Ha7LNep3xo_bWQ@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, Jun 16, 2021 at 8:57 AM houzj(dot)fnst(at)fujitsu(dot)com
<houzj(dot)fnst(at)fujitsu(dot)com> wrote:
>
> I think the check of partition could be even more complicated if we need to
> check the parallel safety of partition key expression. If user directly insert into
> a partition, then we need invoke ExecPartitionCheck which will execute all it's
> parent's and grandparent's partition key expressions. It means if we change a
> parent table's partition key expression(by 1) change function in expr or 2) attach
> the parent table as partition of another parent table), then we need to invalidate
> all its child's relcache.
>

I think we already invalidate the child entries when we add/drop
constraints on a parent table. See ATAddCheckConstraint,
ATExecDropConstraint. If I am not missing anything then this case
shouldn't be a problem. Do you have something else in mind?

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With Regards,
Amit Kapila.

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