With this commit we've started to propagate sequences and shell
tables within the object dependency resolution. So, ensuring any
dependencies for any object will consider shell tables and sequences
as well. Separate logics for both shell tables and sequences have
been removed.
Since both shell tables and sequences logic were implemented as a
part of the metadata handling before that logic, we were propagating
them while syncing table metadata. With this commit we've divided
metadata (which means anything except shards thereafter) syncing
logic into multiple parts and implemented it either as a part of
ActivateNode. You can check the functions called in ActivateNode
to check definition of different metadata.
Definitions of start_metadata_sync_to_node and citus_activate_node
have also been updated. citus_activate_node will basically create
an active node with all metadata and reference table shards.
start_metadata_sync_to_node will be same with citus_activate_node
except replicating reference tables. stop_metadata_sync_to_node
will remove all the metadata. All of those UDFs need to be called
by superuser.
With local query caching, we try to avoid deparse/parse stages as the
operation is too costly.
However, we can do deparse/parse operations once per cached queries, right
before we put the plan into the cache. With that, we avoid edge
cases like (4239) or (5038).
In a sense, we are making the local plan caching behave similar for non-cached
local/remote queries, by forcing to deparse the query once.
Burak Velioglu
Onder Kalaci