RE: [bug?] Missed parallel safety checks, and wrong parallel safety

On Tuesday, June 22, 2021 8:25 PM Amit Kapila  wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 16, 2021 at 8:57 AM houzj.fnst@fujitsu.com  wrote:
> >
> > I think the check of partition could be even more complicated if we
> > need to check the parallel safety of partition key expression. If user
> > directly insert into a partition, then we need invoke
> > ExecPartitionCheck which will execute all it's parent's and
> > grandparent's partition key expressions. It means if we change a
> > parent table's partition key expression(by 1) change function in expr
> > or 2) attach the parent table as partition of another parent table), then we
> need to invalidate all its child's relcache.
> >
> 
> I think we already invalidate the child entries when we add/drop constraints on
> a parent table. See ATAddCheckConstraint, ATExecDropConstraint. If I am not
> missing anything then this case shouldn't be a problem. Do you have
> something else in mind?

Currently, attach/detach a partition doesn't invalidate the child entries
recursively, except when detach a partition concurrently which will add a
constraint to all the child. Do you mean we can add the logic about
invalidating the child entries recursively when attach/detach a partition ?

Best regards,
houzj