Re: Regarding identifying a foreign scan

On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 4:05 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Atri Sharma <atri(dot)jiit(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 3:45 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>>> Atri Sharma <atri(dot)jiit(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>>>> I am trying to identify foreign scans uniquely.
>
>>> What do you mean by "identify"? What are you trying to accomplish,
>>> and in what context?
>
>> I am trying to identify the situation where a query has multiple
>> foreign scans.In that case,I need to check whether the current scan is
>> the same as a previous scan or not.If not,then I think it means that
>> multiple scans are in progress on the same backend.
>
> Well, if you search the plan tree and find more than one ForeignScan
> node, it means there's more than one foreign scan. It doesn't seem to
> me to be very complicated. Now, if you're wondering whether they
> reference the same server or not, that's a bit harder. I guess you
> could look at the RTEs, fetch the foreign-table data for each FT
> relation OID, and see if the same server is referenced.
>
> regards, tom lane

Hi Tom,

Thanks for the extensive reply.

The issue I am trying to resolve is that if two scans are taking place
on the same backend(due to the same query),then,the server is
crashing.

e.g. foreign_table is a foreign table

SELECT * FROM foreign_table UNION SELECT * FROM foreign_table; results
in a crash of the server.

I think it is because I am not saving the state of the scan,so,if
multiple scans a re running on the same backend,then,it is causing the
crash.

Any hints on how I can detect this condition please?

Atri

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Regards,

Atri
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