Re: INSERT ... ON CONFLICT UPDATE/IGNORE 4.0, parser/executor stuff

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)heroku(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: hlinnaka <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi>, Jeff Janes <jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Dean Rasheed <dean(dot)a(dot)rasheed(at)gmail(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: INSERT ... ON CONFLICT UPDATE/IGNORE 4.0, parser/executor stuff
Date: 2015-04-27 14:28:49
Message-ID: 20150427142849.GD7296@alap3.anarazel.de
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On 2015-04-26 18:02:06 -0700, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
> * So far, there has been a lack of scrutiny about what the patch does
> in the rewriter (in particular, to support the EXCLUDED.* pseudo-alias
> expression) and optimizer (the whole concept of an "auxiliary"
> query/plan that share a target RTE, and later target ResultRelation).
> If someone took a close look at that, it would be most helpful.
> ruleutils.c is also modified for the benefit of EXPLAIN output. This
> all applies only to the ON CONFLICT UPDATE patch. A committer could
> push out the IGNORE patch before this was 100% firm.

I'm far from an expert on the relevant regions; but I'm starting to look
nonetheless. I have to say that on a preliminary look it looks more
complicated than it has to.

Tom, any chance you could have a look at the parse->analsys->executor
transformations?

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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