Before this commit, Citus supported INSERT...SELECT queries with
ON CONFLICT or RETURNING clauses only for pushdownable ones, since
queries supported via coordinator were utilizing COPY infrastructure
of PG to send selected tuples to the target worker nodes.
After this PR, INSERT...SELECT queries with ON CONFLICT or RETURNING
clauses will be performed in two phases via coordinator. In the first
phase selected tuples will be saved to the intermediate table which
is colocated with target table of the INSERT...SELECT query. Note that,
a utility function to save results to the colocated intermediate result
also implemented as a part of this commit. In the second phase, INSERT..
SELECT query is directly run on the worker node using the intermediate
table as the source table.
The file handling the utility functions (DDL) for citus organically grew over time and became unreasonably large. This refactor takes that file and refactored the functionality into separate files per command. Initially modeled after the directory and file layout that can be found in postgres.
Although the size of the change is quite big there are barely any code changes. Only one two functions have been added for readability purposes:
- PostProcessIndexStmt which is extracted from PostProcessUtility
- PostProcessAlterTableStmt which is extracted from multi_ProcessUtility
A README.md has been added to `src/backend/distributed/commands` describing the contents of the module and every file in the module.
We need more documentation around the overloading of the COPY command, for now the boilerplate has been added for people with better knowledge to fill out.
Hadi Moshayedi
SaitTalhaNisanci
Marco Slot