pgsql: Make postgres_fdw's "Relations" output agree with the rest of EX

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: pgsql-committers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: pgsql: Make postgres_fdw's "Relations" output agree with the rest of EX
Date: 2019-12-02 21:31:10
Message-ID: E1ibtHi-0000ou-4N@gemulon.postgresql.org
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Make postgres_fdw's "Relations" output agree with the rest of EXPLAIN.

The relation aliases shown in the "Relations" line for a foreign scan
didn't always agree with those used in the rest of EXPLAIN's output.
The regression test result changes appearing here provide examples.

It's really impossible for postgres_fdw to duplicate EXPLAIN's alias
assignment logic during postgresGetForeignRelSize(), because of the
de-duplication that EXPLAIN does on a global basis --- and anyway,
trying to duplicate that would be unmaintainable. Instead, just put
numeric rangetable indexes into the string, and convert those to
table names/aliases in postgresExplainForeignScan, which does have
access to the results of ruleutils.c's alias assignment logic.
Aside from being more reliable, this shifts some work from planning
to EXPLAIN, which is a good tradeoff for performance. (I also
changed from using StringInfo to using psprintf, which makes the
code slightly simpler and reduces its memory consumption.)

A kluge required by this solution is that we have to reverse-engineer
the rtoffset applied by setrefs.c. If that logic ever fails
(presumably because the member tables of a join got offset by
different amounts), we'll need some more cooperation with setrefs.c
to keep things straight. But for now, there's no need for that.

Arguably this is a back-patchable bug fix, but since this is a mostly
cosmetic issue and there have been no field complaints, I'll refrain
for now.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/12424.1575168015@sss.pgh.pa.us

Branch
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master

Details
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/4526951d564a7eed512b4a0ac3b5893e0a115690

Modified Files
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contrib/postgres_fdw/expected/postgres_fdw.out | 30 +++---
contrib/postgres_fdw/postgres_fdw.c | 132 ++++++++++++++++++-------
contrib/postgres_fdw/postgres_fdw.h | 11 ++-
3 files changed, 117 insertions(+), 56 deletions(-)

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