To permit use with ZomboDB (https://github.com/zombodb/zombodb), two
changes were necessary:
1. Permit use of `tableoid` system column in queries
2. Extend relation names appearing in index expressions
The first is accomplished by simply changing the deparse logic to allow
system columns in queries destined for distributed tables. The latter
was slightly more complex, given that DDL extension currently occurs on
workers. But since indexes cannot reference tables other than the one
being indexed, it is safe to look for any relation reference ending in
a '*' character and extend their penultimate segments with a shard id.
This change also adds an error to prevent users from distributing any
relations using the WITH (OIDS) feature, which is unsupported.
Before this change, we do not check whether given table which already contains any data
in master_create_distributed_table command. If that table contains any data, making it
it distributed, makes that data hidden to user. With this change, we now gave error to
user if the table contains data.
Previously several commands, amongst them commands like
master_create_distributed_table(), were allowed for everyone. That's not
good: Even though citus currently requires superuser permissions, we
shouldn't allow non-superusers to perform actions as sensitive as making
a table distributed.
There's no checks on the worker_* functions, as these usually just punt
the action to underlying postgres functionality, which then perform the
necessary checks.
All citusdb references in
- extension, binary names
- file headers
- all configuration name prefixes
- error/warning messages
- some functions names
- regression tests
are changed to be citus.
Eric B. Ridge
Burak Yucesoy
Andres Freund
Jason Petersen
Marco Slot
Murat Tuncer
Onder Kalaci