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From: Amit Langote <Langote_Amit_f8@lab.ntt.co.jp>
To: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Cc: Etsuro Fujita <fujita.etsuro@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: Luis Carril <luis.carril@swarm64.com>
Cc: pgsql-bugs@lists.postgresql.org <pgsql-bugs@lists.postgresql.org>
Cc: PG Bug reporting form <noreply@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: BUG #15552: Unexpected error in COPY to a foreign table in a transaction
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2018 10:24:12 +0900
Message-ID: <734ea1ad-c44f-b802-0796-51a88303dc2c@lab.ntt.co.jp> (raw)
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On 2018/12/19 10:19, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 09:44:42AM +0900, Amit Langote wrote:
>> About adding guards in heap_sync itself to make sure that it becomes a
>> no-op for non-heap relations, I think that would make sense too.
>> Although, I wonder why it doesn't return without doing anything already,
>> given that it has this:
>>
>> heap_sync(Relation rel)
>> {
>>     /* non-WAL-logged tables never need fsync */
>>     if (!RelationNeedsWAL(rel))
>>         return;
> 
> I think that you should be careful here as we want heap_sync to remain a
> rather low-level routine.  For example:
> https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20180919214858.65bwponiuqb3rnn2@alap3.anarazel.de

I agree.  Though, Andres also said this:

=====
> All the other callers of heap_sync don't care about partitioned
> tables, so we could add an assertion on RELKIND_PARTITIONED_TABLE.

Or rather, it should assert the expected relkinds?
======

which is what I was thinking.  Instead of specifically preventing
partitioned tables, or foreign tables, or views, we could assert that only
relations having heap files are passed.

Thanks,
Amit





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