Re: Writable foreign tables: how to identify rows

From: Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Pavan Deolasee <pavan(dot)deolasee(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Writable foreign tables: how to identify rows
Date: 2013-03-06 04:48:47
Message-ID: CAB7nPqSYrmD=mZ3KUdKptmpd24t3=DxxS8-gUGh-CF_53_Z7yA@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 12:35 PM, Pavan Deolasee <pavan(dot)deolasee(at)gmail(dot)com>wrote:

> +1 for adding a new system attribute. We did something similar in
> Postgres-XC, though problem there was much simpler because we always
> knew that the remote FDW is a Postgres instance running the same
> version. So we added a new system column "node_id" which does not get
> any disk storage, but gets set during execution time depending on
> which node the tuple belongs to. The ctid system column of course is
> set to the remote ctid.
>
Just thinking aloud... This could also be merged in XC code and reduce XC
code footprint on PG core. <http://www.linkedin.com/in/pavandeolasee>
--
Michael

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