and the expression originating from the source. If the types are different, Citus uses
different hash functions for the two column types, which might lead to incorrect repartitioning
of the result data
1) For distributed tables that are not colocated.
2) When joining on a non-distribution column for colocated tables.
3) When merging into a distributed table using reference or citus-local tables as the data source.
This is accomplished primarily through the implementation of the following two strategies.
Repartition: Plan the source query independently,
execute the results into intermediate files, and repartition the files to
co-locate them with the merge-target table. Subsequently, compile a final
merge query on the target table using the intermediate results as the data
source.
Pull-to-coordinator: Execute the plan that requires evaluation at the coordinator,
run the query on the coordinator, and redistribute the resulting rows to ensure
colocation with the target shards. Direct the MERGE SQL operation to the worker
nodes' target shards, using the intermediate files colocated with the data as the
data source.
Enable router planner and a limited version of INSERT .. SELECT planner
for the queries that reference colocated null shard key tables.
* SELECT / UPDATE / DELETE / MERGE is supported as long as it's a router
query.
* INSERT .. SELECT is supported as long as it only references colocated
null shard key tables.
Note that this is not only limited to distributed INSERT .. SELECT but
also
covers a limited set of query types that require pull-to-coordinator,
e.g.,
due to LIMIT clause, generate_series() etc. ...
(Ideally distributed INSERT .. SELECT could handle such queries too,
e.g.,
when we're only referencing tables that don't have a shard key, but
today
this is not the case. See
https://github.com/citusdata/citus/pull/6773#discussion_r1140130562.
Because they're only interested in distributed tables. Even more,
this replaces HasDistributionKey() check with
IsCitusTableType(DISTRIBUTED_TABLE) because this doesn't make a
difference on main and sounds slightly more intuitive. Plus, this
would also allow safely using this function in
https://github.com/citusdata/citus/pull/6773.
Fixes#6672
2) Move all MERGE related routines to a new file merge_planner.c
3) Make ConjunctionContainsColumnFilter() static again, and rearrange the code in MergeQuerySupported()
4) Restore the original format in the comments section.
5) Add big serial test. Implement latest set of comments
Teja Mupparti
Onur Tirtir
Marco Slot