Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2021 19:39:26 -0500
From: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
To: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org,
	Jacob Champion <pchampion@vmware.com>,
	Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>,
	Ashwin Agrawal <aagrawal@pivotal.io>,
	Ashutosh Sharma <ashu.coek88@gmail.com>,
	Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>,
	Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>,
	Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>,
	Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Subject: Re: create table like: ACCESS METHOD
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On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 03:03:31PM -0600, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 12:33:56PM +0000, Simon Riggs wrote:
> > There are no tests for the new functionality, please could you add some?
> 
> Did you look at the most recent patch?
> 
> +CREATE ACCESS METHOD heapdup TYPE TABLE HANDLER heap_tableam_handler;
> +CREATE TABLE likeam() USING heapdup;
> +CREATE TABLE likeamlike(LIKE likeam INCLUDING ALL);                                                                                                                                                                               
> 
> Also, I just realized that Dilip's toast compression patch adds "INCLUDING
> COMPRESSION", which is stored in pg_am.  That's an implementation detail of
> that patch, but it's not intuitive that "including access method" wouldn't
> include the compression stored there.  So I think this should use "INCLUDING
> TABLE ACCESS METHOD" not just ACCESS METHOD.  

Since the TOAST patch ended up not using access methods after all, I renamed
this back to "like ACCESS METHOD" (without table).

For now, I left TableLikeOption un-alphabetized.

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From 2da8104a39f65f576d0f221c288502d27211a209 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Justin Pryzby <pryzbyj@telsasoft.com>
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2020 16:54:53 -0600
Subject: [PATCH v4] create table (like .. including ACCESS METHOD)

---
 doc/src/sgml/ref/create_table.sgml              | 12 +++++++++++-
 src/backend/parser/gram.y                       |  1 +
 src/backend/parser/parse_utilcmd.c              | 10 ++++++++++
 src/include/nodes/parsenodes.h                  |  1 +
 src/test/regress/expected/create_table_like.out | 12 ++++++++++++
 src/test/regress/sql/create_table_like.sql      |  8 ++++++++
 6 files changed, 43 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_table.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_table.sgml
index c6c248f1e9..dd92fd0e9a 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_table.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_table.sgml
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ class="parameter">referential_action</replaceable> ] [ ON UPDATE <replaceable cl
 
 <phrase>and <replaceable class="parameter">like_option</replaceable> is:</phrase>
 
-{ INCLUDING | EXCLUDING } { COMMENTS | CONSTRAINTS | DEFAULTS | GENERATED | IDENTITY | INDEXES | STATISTICS | STORAGE | ALL }
+{ INCLUDING | EXCLUDING } { ACCESS METHOD | COMMENTS | CONSTRAINTS | DEFAULTS | GENERATED | IDENTITY | INDEXES | STATISTICS | STORAGE | ALL }
 
 <phrase>and <replaceable class="parameter">partition_bound_spec</replaceable> is:</phrase>
 
@@ -613,6 +613,16 @@ WITH ( MODULUS <replaceable class="parameter">numeric_literal</replaceable>, REM
       available options are:
 
       <variablelist>
+       <varlistentry>
+        <term><literal>INCLUDING ACCESS METHOD</literal></term>
+        <listitem>
+         <para>
+          The table's access method will be copied.  By default, the
+          <literal>default_table_access_method</literal> is used.
+         </para>
+        </listitem>
+       </varlistentry>
+
        <varlistentry>
         <term><literal>INCLUDING COMMENTS</literal></term>
         <listitem>
diff --git a/src/backend/parser/gram.y b/src/backend/parser/gram.y
index bc43641ffe..383e0671af 100644
--- a/src/backend/parser/gram.y
+++ b/src/backend/parser/gram.y
@@ -3741,6 +3741,7 @@ TableLikeOption:
 				| STATISTICS		{ $$ = CREATE_TABLE_LIKE_STATISTICS; }
 				| STORAGE			{ $$ = CREATE_TABLE_LIKE_STORAGE; }
 				| COMPRESSION		{ $$ = CREATE_TABLE_LIKE_COMPRESSION; }
+				| ACCESS METHOD 	{ $$ = CREATE_TABLE_LIKE_ACCESS_METHOD; }
 				| ALL				{ $$ = CREATE_TABLE_LIKE_ALL; }
 		;
 
diff --git a/src/backend/parser/parse_utilcmd.c b/src/backend/parser/parse_utilcmd.c
index aa6c19adad..07e18fa62f 100644
--- a/src/backend/parser/parse_utilcmd.c
+++ b/src/backend/parser/parse_utilcmd.c
@@ -97,6 +97,7 @@ typedef struct
 	bool		ispartitioned;	/* true if table is partitioned */
 	PartitionBoundSpec *partbound;	/* transformed FOR VALUES */
 	bool		ofType;			/* true if statement contains OF typename */
+	char		*accessMethod;	/* table access method */
 } CreateStmtContext;
 
 /* State shared by transformCreateSchemaStmt and its subroutines */
@@ -253,6 +254,7 @@ transformCreateStmt(CreateStmt *stmt, const char *queryString)
 	cxt.ispartitioned = stmt->partspec != NULL;
 	cxt.partbound = stmt->partbound;
 	cxt.ofType = (stmt->ofTypename != NULL);
+	cxt.accessMethod = NULL;
 
 	Assert(!stmt->ofTypename || !stmt->inhRelations);	/* grammar enforces */
 
@@ -347,6 +349,9 @@ transformCreateStmt(CreateStmt *stmt, const char *queryString)
 	stmt->tableElts = cxt.columns;
 	stmt->constraints = cxt.ckconstraints;
 
+	if (cxt.accessMethod != NULL)
+		stmt->accessMethod = cxt.accessMethod;
+
 	result = lappend(cxt.blist, stmt);
 	result = list_concat(result, cxt.alist);
 	result = list_concat(result, save_alist);
@@ -1137,6 +1142,11 @@ transformTableLikeClause(CreateStmtContext *cxt, TableLikeClause *table_like_cla
 		cxt->likeclauses = lappend(cxt->likeclauses, table_like_clause);
 	}
 
+	/* ACCESS METHOD doesn't apply and isn't copied for partitioned tables */
+	if ((table_like_clause->options & CREATE_TABLE_LIKE_ACCESS_METHOD) != 0 &&
+		!cxt->ispartitioned)
+		cxt->accessMethod = get_am_name(relation->rd_rel->relam);
+
 	/*
 	 * We may copy extended statistics if requested, since the representation
 	 * of CreateStatsStmt doesn't depend on column numbers.
diff --git a/src/include/nodes/parsenodes.h b/src/include/nodes/parsenodes.h
index 68425eb2c0..5e2fc9baca 100644
--- a/src/include/nodes/parsenodes.h
+++ b/src/include/nodes/parsenodes.h
@@ -696,6 +696,7 @@ typedef enum TableLikeOption
 	CREATE_TABLE_LIKE_STATISTICS = 1 << 6,
 	CREATE_TABLE_LIKE_STORAGE = 1 << 7,
 	CREATE_TABLE_LIKE_COMPRESSION = 1 << 8,
+	CREATE_TABLE_LIKE_ACCESS_METHOD = 1 << 9,
 	CREATE_TABLE_LIKE_ALL = PG_INT32_MAX
 } TableLikeOption;
 
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/create_table_like.out b/src/test/regress/expected/create_table_like.out
index 10d17be23c..a09cd48ed0 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/create_table_like.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/create_table_like.out
@@ -429,6 +429,18 @@ SELECT s.stxname, objsubid, description FROM pg_description, pg_statistic_ext s
  ctlt_all_a_b_stat |        0 | ab stats
 (1 row)
 
+CREATE ACCESS METHOD heapdup TYPE TABLE HANDLER heap_tableam_handler;
+CREATE TABLE likeam() USING heapdup;
+CREATE TABLE likeamlike(LIKE likeam INCLUDING ALL);
+-- pg_regress helpfully hides the Access Method output, which we need:
+SELECT a.amname FROM pg_class c JOIN pg_am a ON c.relam=a.oid WHERE c.oid='likeamlike'::regclass;
+ amname  
+---------
+ heapdup
+(1 row)
+
+DROP TABLE likeam, likeamlike;
+DROP ACCESS METHOD heapdup;
 CREATE TABLE inh_error1 () INHERITS (ctlt1, ctlt4);
 NOTICE:  merging multiple inherited definitions of column "a"
 ERROR:  inherited column "a" has a storage parameter conflict
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/create_table_like.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/create_table_like.sql
index 06b76f949d..ee6c464851 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/create_table_like.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/create_table_like.sql
@@ -165,6 +165,14 @@ CREATE TABLE ctlt_all (LIKE ctlt1 INCLUDING ALL);
 SELECT c.relname, objsubid, description FROM pg_description, pg_index i, pg_class c WHERE classoid = 'pg_class'::regclass AND objoid = i.indexrelid AND c.oid = i.indexrelid AND i.indrelid = 'ctlt_all'::regclass ORDER BY c.relname, objsubid;
 SELECT s.stxname, objsubid, description FROM pg_description, pg_statistic_ext s WHERE classoid = 'pg_statistic_ext'::regclass AND objoid = s.oid AND s.stxrelid = 'ctlt_all'::regclass ORDER BY s.stxname, objsubid;
 
+CREATE ACCESS METHOD heapdup TYPE TABLE HANDLER heap_tableam_handler;
+CREATE TABLE likeam() USING heapdup;
+CREATE TABLE likeamlike(LIKE likeam INCLUDING ALL);
+-- pg_regress helpfully hides the Access Method output, which we need:
+SELECT a.amname FROM pg_class c JOIN pg_am a ON c.relam=a.oid WHERE c.oid='likeamlike'::regclass;
+DROP TABLE likeam, likeamlike;
+DROP ACCESS METHOD heapdup;
+
 CREATE TABLE inh_error1 () INHERITS (ctlt1, ctlt4);
 CREATE TABLE inh_error2 (LIKE ctlt4 INCLUDING STORAGE) INHERITS (ctlt1);
 
-- 
2.17.0


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