Re: Prevent COPY FREEZE on Foreign tables

From: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Sami Imseih <samimseih(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Zhang Mingli <zmlpostgres(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Prevent COPY FREEZE on Foreign tables
Date: 2025-02-06 16:20:02
Message-ID: Z6ThMuEmTZLgphhE@nathan
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On Wed, Feb 05, 2025 at 01:36:57PM -0600, Sami Imseih wrote:
>> so the only reason I can see
>> for not back-patching it is that it could lead to somewhat widespread
>> breakage for existing scripts, etc. which are arguably kind-of working
>> today.
>
> That is my thought for not backpatching. It's not breaking the COPY
> command, it's just not applying an optimization.
>
> Let's see what others think.

Given we don't have any other reports or opinions, I'm probably just going
to apply the patch to v18. That leaves the door open to back-patch later.
The next minor release is next week, anyway, and this doesn't seem urgent.

I did find one other thread that mentions this behavior [0]. They floated
the idea of blocking COPY FREEZE on foreign tables, but the topic fizzled
out in indecision. *shrug*

[0] https://postgr.es/m/20181219023814.GA6577%40paquier.xyz

--
nathan

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