Re: Is user_catalog_table sensible for matviews?

On 2016-11-09 12:55:51 -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 9, 2016 at 12:17 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> > The system will let you set the "user_catalog_table" reloption to "true"
> > on a materialized view. Is this sensible, or is it a bug caused by the
> > fact that reloptions.c fails to distinguish matviews from heaps at all?
> >
> > If it is sensible, then I broke it in e3e66d8a9 ...
>
> I can understand what that combination of opens would mean from a
> semantic point of view, so I don't think it's insensible. However, it
> doesn't seem like an important combination to support, and I suspect
> that the fact that we did was accidental.

I don't see it as being important either. I suspect we intentionally
didn't exclude it, but less because of a use-case and more because there
didn't seem to be a need to.

Andres