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Improve updatability checking for views and foreign tables.

Extend the FDW API (which we already changed for 9.3) so that an FDW can
report whether specific foreign tables are insertable/updatable/deletable.
The default assumption continues to be that they're updatable if the
relevant executor callback function is supplied by the FDW, but finer
granularity is now possible.  As a test case, add an "updatable" option to
contrib/postgres_fdw.

This patch also fixes the information_schema views, which previously did
not think that foreign tables were ever updatable, and fixes
view_is_auto_updatable() so that a view on a foreign table can be
auto-updatable.

initdb forced due to changes in information_schema views and the functions
they rely on.  This is a bit unfortunate to do post-beta1, but if we don't
change this now then we'll have another API break for FDWs when we do
change it.

Dean Rasheed, somewhat editorialized on by Tom Lane
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Tom Lane
2013-06-12 17:52:54 -04:00
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</para>
</sect3>
<sect3>
<title>Updatability Options</title>
<para>
By default all foreign tables using <filename>postgres_fdw</> are assumed
to be updatable. This may be overridden using the following option:
</para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><literal>updatable</literal></term>
<listitem>
<para>
This option controls whether <filename>postgres_fdw</> allows foreign
tables to be modified using <command>INSERT</>, <command>UPDATE</> and
<command>DELETE</> commands. It can be specified for a foreign table
or a foreign server. A table-level option overrides a server-level
option.
The default is <literal>true</>.
</para>
<para>
Of course, if the remote table is not in fact updatable, an error
would occur anyway. Use of this option primarily allows the error to
be thrown locally without querying the remote server. Note however
that the <literal>information_schema</> views will report a
<filename>postgres_fdw</> foreign table to be updatable (or not)
according to the setting of this option, without any check of the
remote server.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</sect3>
</sect2>
<sect2>