Citus has the logic to truncate the long shard names to prevent
various issues, including self-deadlocks. However, for partitioned
tables, when index is created on the parent table, the index names
on the partitions are auto-generated by Postgres. We use the same
Postgres function to generate the index names on the shards of the
partitions. If the length exceeds the limit, we switch to sequential
execution mode.
With this PR, Citus starts to support all possible ways to create
distributed partitioned tables. These are;
- Distributing already created partitioning hierarchy
- CREATE TABLE ... PARTITION OF a distributed_table
- ALTER TABLE distributed_table ATTACH PARTITION non_distributed_table
- ALTER TABLE distributed_table ATTACH PARTITION distributed_table
We also support DETACHing partitions from partitioned tables and propogating
TRUNCATE and DDL commands to distributed partitioned tables.
This PR also refactors some parts of distributed table creation logic.
This commit is intended to be a base for supporting declarative partitioning
on distributed tables. Here we add the following utility functions and their
unit tests:
* Very basic functions including differnentiating partitioned tables and
partitions, listing the partitions
* Generating the PARTITION BY (expr) and adding this to the DDL events
of partitioned tables
* Ability to generate text representations of the ranges for partitions
* Ability to generate the `ALTER TABLE parent_table ATTACH PARTITION
partition_table FOR VALUES value_range`
* Ability to apply add shard ids to the above command using
`worker_apply_inter_shard_ddl_command()`
* Ability to generate `ALTER TABLE parent_table DETACH PARTITION`