Commit 90fca7a3 authored by Etsuro Fujita's avatar Etsuro Fujita

Add FDW documentation notes about insert and update tuple routing and COPY.

Author: Laurenz Albe and Etsuro Fujita
Reviewed-by: Laurenz Albe and Amit Langote
Backpatch-through: 11 where support for that by FDWs was added
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/bf36a0288e8f31b4f2f40952e225bf892dc1ffc5.camel@cybertec.at
parent a9ce839a
...@@ -593,6 +593,14 @@ ExecForeignInsert(EState *estate, ...@@ -593,6 +593,14 @@ ExecForeignInsert(EState *estate,
with an error message. with an error message.
</para> </para>
<para>
Note that this function is also called when inserting routed tuples into
a foreign-table partition or executing <command>COPY FROM</command> on
a foreign table, in which case it is called in a different way than it
is in the <command>INSERT</command> case. See the callback functions
described below that allow the FDW to support that.
</para>
<para> <para>
<programlisting> <programlisting>
TupleTableSlot * TupleTableSlot *
...@@ -751,6 +759,13 @@ BeginForeignInsert(ModifyTableState *mtstate, ...@@ -751,6 +759,13 @@ BeginForeignInsert(ModifyTableState *mtstate,
<literal>NULL</literal>, no action is taken for the initialization. <literal>NULL</literal>, no action is taken for the initialization.
</para> </para>
<para>
Note that if the FDW does not support routable foreign-table partitions
and/or executing <command>COPY FROM</command> on foreign tables, this
function or <function>ExecForeignInsert</function> subsequently called
must throw error as needed.
</para>
<para> <para>
<programlisting> <programlisting>
void void
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