On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 6:04 PM Heikki Linnakangas <hlinn...@iki.fi> wrote:
I'll continue with the last couple of patches in this thread.
I committed the move of the cross-partition logic to new ExecCrossPartitionUpdate() function, with just minor comment editing and pgindent. I left out the refactoring around the calls to AFTER ROW INSERT/DELETE triggers. I stared at the change for a while, and wasn't sure if I liked the patched or the unpatched new version better, so I left it alone.
Looking at the last patch, "Revise child-to-root tuple conversion map management", that's certainly an improvement. However, I find it confusing that sometimes the mapping from child to root is in relinfo->ri_ChildToRootMap, and sometimes in relinfo->ri_PartitionInfo->pi_PartitionToRootMap. When is each of those filled in? If both are set, is it well defined which one is initialized first?
In general, I'm pretty confused by the initialization of ri_PartitionInfo. Where is initialized, and when? In execnodes.h, the definition of ResultRelInfo says:
/* info for partition tuple routing (NULL if not set up yet) */ struct PartitionRoutingInfo *ri_PartitionInfo;
That implies that the field is initialized lazily. But in ExecFindPartition, we have this:
if (partidx == partdesc->boundinfo->default_index) { PartitionRoutingInfo *partrouteinfo = rri->ri_PartitionInfo; /* * The tuple must match the partition's layout for the constraint * expression to be evaluated successfully. If the partition is * sub-partitioned, that would already be the case due to the code * above, but for a leaf partition the tuple still matches the * parent's layout. * * Note that we have a map to convert from root to current * partition, but not from immediate parent to current partition. * So if we have to convert, do it from the root slot; if not, use * the root slot as-is. */ if (partrouteinfo) { TupleConversionMap *map = partrouteinfo->pi_RootToPartitionMap; if (map) slot = execute_attr_map_slot(map->attrMap, rootslot, partrouteinfo->pi_PartitionTupleSlot); else slot = rootslot; } ExecPartitionCheck(rri, slot, estate, true); }
That check implies that it's not just lazily initialized, the code will work differently if ri_PartitionInfo is set or not.
I think all this would be more clear if ri_PartitionInfo and ri_ChildToRootMap were both truly lazily initialized, the first time they're needed. And if we removed ri_PartitionInfo->pi_PartitionToRootMap, and always used ri_ChildToRootMap for it.
Maybe remove PartitionRoutingInfo struct altogether, and just move its fields directly to ResultRelInfo.
- Heikki