Re: FDW for PostgreSQL

From: Shigeru Hanada <shigeru(dot)hanada(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Albe Laurenz <laurenz(dot)albe(at)wien(dot)gv(dot)at>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Kohei KaiGai <kaigai(at)kaigai(dot)gr(dot)jp>, Etsuro Fujita <fujita(dot)etsuro(at)lab(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: FDW for PostgreSQL
Date: 2013-02-14 10:11:01
Message-ID: CAEZqfEeh7LjZKAG=JCv4dSDdMBm8xh_66OV=Em9+gTJbPXHLxA@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 6:45 PM, Albe Laurenz <laurenz(dot)albe(at)wien(dot)gv(dot)at> wrote:
> Shigeru Hanada wrote:
>> Tom Lane wrote:
>>> It ought to be pulling the rows back a few at a time, and
>>> that's not going to work well if multiple scans are sharing the same
>>> connection. (We might be able to dodge that by declaring a cursor
>>> for each scan, but I'm not convinced that such a solution will scale up
>>> to writable foreign tables, nested queries, subtransactions, etc.)
>>
>> Indeed the FDW used CURSOR in older versions. Sorry for that I have
>> not looked writable foreign table patch closely yet, but it would
>> require (may be multiple) remote update query executions during
>> scanning?
>
> It would for example call ExecForeignUpdate after each call to
> IterateForeignScan that produces a row that meets the UPDATE
> condition.

Thanks! It seems that ExecForeignUpdate needs another connection for
update query, or we need to retrieve all results at the first Iterate
call to prepare for possible subsequent update query.

--
Shigeru HANADA

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