From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: AlterTableCreateToastTable API still not right for pg_migrator |
Date: | 2009-06-11 23:39:47 |
Message-ID: | 200906112339.n5BNdlj06456@momjian.us |
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Tom Lane wrote:
> I just started reading the pg_migrator source code, and I notice that
> we still didn't get AlterTableCreateToastTable's API right for
> pg_migrator's usage. It needs to be exposing an option to force
> a particular OID for the toast table. The way pg_migrator is handling
> that now is both ugly and unsafe, and it's really pretty silly when the
> underlying create_toast_table() function is perfectly capable of being
> told what we want it to do.
>
> There's still time to fix this before RC1. I propose adding
> "Oid toastOid" to AlterTableCreateToastTable's arguments, with
> the semantics that if it's not InvalidOid then we attempt to create
> the toast table with that OID.
I have update pg_migrator CVS to match the new API, but I will not put
out a new pg_migrator release until Postgres 8.4RC1 is released.
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