On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 5:10 PM, Etsuro Fujita <fujita.ets...@lab.ntt.co.jp>
wrote:

> On 2015/03/11 17:37, Ashutosh Bapat wrote:
>
>> Now I can reproduce the problem.
>>
>> Sanity
>> --------
>> Patch compiles cleanly and make check passes. The tests in file_fdw and
>> postgres_fdw contrib modules pass.
>>
>> The patch works as expected in the test case reported.
>>
>
> Thanks for the testing!
>
>  I have only one doubt.
>> In EvalPlanQualFetchRowMarks(). tuple->t_self is assigned from
>> td->t_ctid. CTID or even t_self may be valid for foreign tables based on
>> postgres_fdw but may not be valid for other FDWs. So, this assignment
>> might put some garbage in t_self, rather we should set it to invalid as
>> done prior to the patch. I might have missed some previous thread, we
>> decided to go this route, so ignore the comment, in that case.
>>
>
> Good point.  As the following code and comment I added to ForeignNext, I
> think that FDW authors should initialize the tup->t_data->t_ctid of each
> scan tuple with its own TID.  If the authors do that, the t_self is
> guaranteed to be assigned the right TID from the whole-row Var (ie,
> td->t_ctid) in EvalPlanQualFetchRowMarks.
>
>         /* We assume that t_ctid is initialized with its own TID */
>         tup->t_self = tup->t_data->t_ctid;
>
> IMHO, I'm not sure it's worth complicating the code as you mentioned. (I
> don't know whether there are any discussions about this before.)
>
> Note that file_fdw needs no treatment.  In that case, in ForeignNext, the
> tup->t_data->t_ctid of each scan tuple is initialized with (0,0) (if
> necessary), and then the t_self will be correctly assigned (0,0) throguh
> the whole-row Var in EvalPlanQualFetchRowMarks.  So, no inconsistency!
>
>
I will leave this issue for the committer to judge. Changed the status to
"ready for committer".


>  Apart from this, I do not have any comments here.
>>
>
> Thanks again.
>
> Best regards,
> Etsuro Fujita
>



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Best Wishes,
Ashutosh Bapat
EnterpriseDB Corporation
The Postgres Database Company

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