Support MERGE into updatable views.
authorDean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com>
Thu, 29 Feb 2024 15:56:59 +0000 (15:56 +0000)
committerDean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com>
Thu, 29 Feb 2024 15:56:59 +0000 (15:56 +0000)
commit5f2e179bd31e5f5803005101eb12a8d7bf8db8f3
tree838a9f273c1d3d825db322161c0b8cdf3fbb0ce1
parent8b29a119fdaa381d6f75105f539b1e658c0f8cdb
Support MERGE into updatable views.

This allows the target relation of MERGE to be an auto-updatable or
trigger-updatable view, and includes support for WITH CHECK OPTION,
security barrier views, and security invoker views.

A trigger-updatable view must have INSTEAD OF triggers for every type
of action (INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE) mentioned in the MERGE command.
An auto-updatable view must not have any INSTEAD OF triggers. Mixing
auto-update and trigger-update actions (i.e., having a partial set of
INSTEAD OF triggers) is not supported.

Rule-updatable views are also not supported, since there is no
rewriter support for non-SELECT rules with MERGE operations.

Dean Rasheed, reviewed by Jian He and Alvaro Herrera.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEZATCVcB1g0nmxuEc-A+gGB0HnfcGQNGYH7gS=7rq0u0zOBXA@mail.gmail.com
23 files changed:
doc/src/sgml/ref/create_view.sgml
doc/src/sgml/ref/merge.sgml
doc/src/sgml/rules.sgml
src/backend/commands/copyfrom.c
src/backend/executor/execMain.c
src/backend/executor/execPartition.c
src/backend/executor/nodeModifyTable.c
src/backend/optimizer/prep/prepjointree.c
src/backend/optimizer/util/appendinfo.c
src/backend/parser/parse_merge.c
src/backend/rewrite/rewriteHandler.c
src/backend/rewrite/rewriteManip.c
src/bin/psql/tab-complete.c
src/include/catalog/catversion.h
src/include/executor/executor.h
src/include/nodes/parsenodes.h
src/include/rewrite/rewriteHandler.h
src/test/regress/expected/merge.out
src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
src/test/regress/expected/updatable_views.out
src/test/regress/sql/merge.sql
src/test/regress/sql/rules.sql
src/test/regress/sql/updatable_views.sql