Re: Parallel INSERT (INTO ... SELECT ...)

From: Greg Nancarrow <gregn4422(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Parallel INSERT (INTO ... SELECT ...)
Date: 2020-09-25 03:40:47
Message-ID: CAJcOf-fqL++J6D16F5CV0wHLMj6rMtHY4h2wja6Sfrt4keJA2w@mail.gmail.com
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> > What if this
> > ends up being invoked from inside C code?
> >
>
> I think it shouldn't be a problem unless one is trying to do something
> like insert into foreign key table. So, probably we can have an Assert
> to catch it if possible. Do you have any other idea?
>

Note that the planner code updated by the patch does avoid creating a
Parallel INSERT plan in the case of inserting into a table with a
foreign key (so commandIds won't be created in the parallel-worker
code).
I'm not sure how to distinguish the "invoked from inside C code" case though.

Regards,
Greg Nancarrow
Fujitsu Australia

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