Re: Re: [Pg-migrator-general] Composite types break pg_migrated tables

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Dimitri Fontaine <dfontaine(at)hi-media(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Jeff <threshar(at)threshar(dot)is-a-geek(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Re: [Pg-migrator-general] Composite types break pg_migrated tables
Date: 2009-08-06 13:32:29
Message-ID: 20090806133229.GA7769@alvh.no-ip.org
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Dimitri Fontaine wrote:
> Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:

> > We could stop doing that
> > once we have all the user tables in place --- I don't believe it's
> > necessary to preserve the OIDs of user indexes. But we need to
> > preserve toast table OIDs, and toast table index OIDs too if those
> > are created at the same time they are now (else we risk one of them
> > colliding with a toast table OID we want to create later).
>
> It seems harder to come up with a general purpose syntax to support the
> feature in case of toast tables, though.

There's already general purpose syntax for relation options which can be
used to get options that do not ultimately end up in
pg_class.reloptions. An existing example is WITH (oids). One such
option could be used here.

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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
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