Add RETURNING support to MERGE.

This allows a RETURNING clause to be appended to a MERGE query, to
return values based on each row inserted, updated, or deleted. As with
plain INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE commands, the returned values are
based on the new contents of the target table for INSERT and UPDATE
actions, and on its old contents for DELETE actions. Values from the
source relation may also be returned.

As with INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE, the output of MERGE ... RETURNING may be
used as the source relation for other operations such as WITH queries
and COPY commands.

Additionally, a special function merge_action() is provided, which
returns 'INSERT', 'UPDATE', or 'DELETE', depending on the action
executed for each row. The merge_action() function can be used
anywhere in the RETURNING list, including in arbitrary expressions and
subqueries, but it is an error to use it anywhere outside of a MERGE
query's RETURNING list.

Dean Rasheed, reviewed by Isaac Morland, Vik Fearing, Alvaro Herrera,
Gurjeet Singh, Jian He, Jeff Davis, Merlin Moncure, Peter Eisentraut,
and Wolfgang Walther.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAEZATCWePEGQR5LBn-vD6SfeLZafzEm2Qy_L_Oky2=qw2w3Pzg@mail.gmail.com

1 files changed, 51 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/backend/optimizer/util/paramassign.c b/src/backend/optimizer/util/paramassign.c
index a58da7c57ea..f461fedf194 100644
--- a/src/backend/optimizer/util/paramassign.c
+++ b/src/backend/optimizer/util/paramassign.c
@@ -308,6 +308,57 @@ replace_outer_grouping(PlannerInfo *root, GroupingFunc *grp)
 }
 
 /*
+ * Generate a Param node to replace the given MergeSupportFunc expression
+ * which is expected to be in the RETURNING list of an upper-level MERGE
+ * query.  Record the need for the MergeSupportFunc in the proper upper-level
+ * root->plan_params.
+ */
+Param *
+replace_outer_merge_support(PlannerInfo *root, MergeSupportFunc *msf)
+{
+	Param	   *retval;
+	PlannerParamItem *pitem;
+	Oid			ptype = exprType((Node *) msf);
+
+	Assert(root->parse->commandType != CMD_MERGE);
+
+	/*
+	 * The parser should have ensured that the MergeSupportFunc is in the
+	 * RETURNING list of an upper-level MERGE query, so find that query.
+	 */
+	do
+	{
+		root = root->parent_root;
+		if (root == NULL)
+			elog(ERROR, "MergeSupportFunc found outside MERGE");
+	} while (root->parse->commandType != CMD_MERGE);
+
+	/*
+	 * It does not seem worthwhile to try to de-duplicate references to outer
+	 * MergeSupportFunc expressions.  Just make a new slot every time.
+	 */
+	msf = copyObject(msf);
+
+	pitem = makeNode(PlannerParamItem);
+	pitem->item = (Node *) msf;
+	pitem->paramId = list_length(root->glob->paramExecTypes);
+	root->glob->paramExecTypes = lappend_oid(root->glob->paramExecTypes,
+											 ptype);
+
+	root->plan_params = lappend(root->plan_params, pitem);
+
+	retval = makeNode(Param);
+	retval->paramkind = PARAM_EXEC;
+	retval->paramid = pitem->paramId;
+	retval->paramtype = ptype;
+	retval->paramtypmod = -1;
+	retval->paramcollid = InvalidOid;
+	retval->location = msf->location;
+
+	return retval;
+}
+
+/*
  * Generate a Param node to replace the given Var,
  * which is expected to come from some upper NestLoop plan node.
  * Record the need for the Var in root->curOuterParams.