Allow using generated identity column based on int/smallint when
creating a distributed table so that applications that rely on
those data types don't break.
Inserting into / modifying such columns from workers is not allowed
but it's better than not allowing such columns altogether.
This pull request proposes a change to the logic used for propagating
identity columns to worker nodes in citus. Instead of creating a
dependent sequence for each identity column and changing its default
value to `nextval(seq)/worker_nextval(seq)`, this update will pass the
identity columns as-is to the worker nodes.
Please note that there are a few limitations to this change.
1. Only bigint identity columns will be allowed in distributed tables to
ensure compatibility with the DDL from any node functionality. Our
current distributed sequence implementation only allows insert
statements from all nodes for bigint sequences.
2. `alter_distributed_table` and `undistribute_table` operations will
not be allowed for tables with identity columns. This is because we do
not have a proper way of keeping sequence states consistent across the
cluster.
DESCRIPTION: Prevents using identity columns on data types other than
`bigint` on distributed tables
DESCRIPTION: Prevents using `alter_distributed_table` and
`undistribute_table` UDFs when a table has identity columns
DESCRIPTION: Fixes a bug that prevents enforcing identity column
restrictions on worker nodes
Depends on #6740Fixes#6694
Onur Tirtir
Gokhan Gulbiz