Re: CREATE TABLE LIKE INCLUDING INDEXES support

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: NikhilS <nikkhils(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>, Trevor Hardcastle <chizu(at)spicious(dot)com>, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: CREATE TABLE LIKE INCLUDING INDEXES support
Date: 2007-05-29 00:35:34
Message-ID: 200705290035.l4T0ZYR21072@momjian.us
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OK, so the patch is ready to be applied?

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NikhilS wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > I agree this will unnecessary add arguments to the DefineIndex API. If we
> > > stick to the patch's earlier way of converting the Oid to names for just
> > > these 2 arguments, we can avoid this IMO.
> > >
> > > Considering that we will be generating this information from existing
> > valid
> > > index information, I think converting the Oids to names is safe enough.
> > > Alvaro, do you think we should stick to the existing patch mechanism
> > then
> > > considering that it avoids polluting the API?
> >
> > Not sure. Is it possible that the schema is renamed while the operation
> > is being executed? If it's not then this not a problem at all so the
> > existing patch is fine.
>
>
> I doubt if accessMethod name will change. The tableSpace name can change,
> but the possibility is no worse to doing a [CREATE TABLE table_name ...
> TABLESPACE tablespace]. So this should be reasonably ok.
>
> Regards,
> Nikhils
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