With this change, hypertables no longer rely on an INSERT trigger to
dispatch tuples to chunks. While an INSERT trigger worked well for
both INSERTs and COPYs, it caused issues with supporting some regular
triggers on hypertables, and didn't support RETURNING statements and
upserts (ON CONFLICT DO UPDATE).
INSERTs are now handled by modifying the plan for INSERT statements. A
custom plan node is inserted as a subplan to a ModifyTable plan node,
taking care of dispatching tuples to chunks by setting the result
table for every tuple scanned.
COPYs are handled by modifying the regular copy code. Unfortunately,
this required copying a significant amount of regular PostgreSQL
source code since there are no hooks to add modifications. However,
since the modifications are small it should be fairly easy to keep the
code in sync with upstream changes.
This adds support for all types of triggers on a hypertable except
INSERT AFTER. UPDATE and DELETE ROW triggers are automatically copied from
a hypertable onto the chunks. Therefore, any trigger defined on the
parent hypertable will apply to any row in any of the chunks as well.
STATEMENT level triggers and iNSERT triggers need not be copied in this
way.
Previously, catalog tables were not fully protected from malicious
non-superusers. This PR fixes permission handling be severely
restricting permissions to the catalog and instead using SECURITY
DEFINER functions to alter the catalog when needed without giving
users permission to do those same operations outside of these functions.
In addition, these functions check for proper permissions themselves
so are safe to use.
This PR also makes sure that chunk tables have the same owner as the
hypertable and correctly handles `ALTER TABLE...OWNER TO` commands to
keep this info in sync.
Clean up the table schema to get rid of legacy tables and functionality
that makes it more difficult to provide an upgrade path.
Notable changes:
* Get rid of legacy tables and code
* Simplify directory structure for SQL code
* Simplify table hierarchy: remove root table and make chunk tables
* inherit directly from main table
* Change chunk table suffix from _data to _chunk
* Simplify schema usage: _timescaledb_internal for internal functions.
* _timescaledb_catalog for metadata tables.
* Remove postgres_fdw dependency
* Improve code comments in sql code
