This is necessary for multi-row INSERTs for the same reasons we use it
in e.g. UPSERTs: if the range table list has more than one entry, then
PostgreSQL's deparse logic requires that vars be prefixed by the name
of their corresponding range table entry. This of course doesn't affect
single-row INSERTs, but since multi-row INSERTs have a VALUE RTE, they
were affected.
The piece of ruleutils which builds range table names wasn't modified
to handle shard extension; instead UPSERT/INSERT INTO ... SELECT added
an alias to the RTE. When present, this alias is favored. Doing the
same in the multi-row INSERT case fixes RETURNING for such commands.
This is a pretty substantial refactoring of the existing modify path
within the router executor and planner. In particular, we now hunt for
all VALUES range table entries in INSERT statements and group the rows
contained therein by shard identifier. These rows are stashed away for
later in "ModifyRoute" elements. During deparse, the appropriate RTE
is extracted from the Query and its values list is replaced by these
rows before any SQL is generated.
In this way, we can create multiple Tasks, but only one per shard, to
piecemeal execute a multi-row INSERT. The execution of jobs containing
such tasks now exclusively go through the "multi-router executor" which
was previously used for e.g. INSERT INTO ... SELECT.
By piggybacking onto that executor, we participate in ongoing trans-
actions, get rollback-ability, etc. In short order, the only remaining
use of the "single modify" router executor will be for bare single-
row INSERT statements (i.e. those not in a transaction).
This change appropriately handles deferred pruning as well as master-
evaluated functions.
Jason Petersen
Metin Doslu
Marco Slot