Re: PG10 Partitioned tables and relation_is_updatable()

From: Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com>
To: Dean Rasheed <dean(dot)a(dot)rasheed(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: PG10 Partitioned tables and relation_is_updatable()
Date: 2017-06-11 15:55:21
Message-ID: c3b918ac-dd68-0064-649a-e4d31a8c4a0b@joeconway.com
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On 06/11/2017 04:32 AM, Dean Rasheed wrote:
> It looks like relation_is_updatable() didn't get the message about
> partitioned tables. Thus, for example, information_schema.views and
> information_schema.columns report that simple views built on top of
> partitioned tables are non-updatable, which is wrong. Attached is a
> patch to fix this.

> I think this kind of omission is an easy mistake to make when adding a
> new relkind, so it might be worth having more pairs of eyes looking
> out for more of the same. I did a quick scan of the rewriter code
> (prompted by the recent similar omission for RLS on partitioned
> tables) and I didn't find any more problems there, but I haven't
> looked elsewhere yet.

Yeah, I noticed the same while working on the RLS related patch. I did
not see anything else in rewriteHandler.c but it is probably worth
looking wider for other omissions.

Joe

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