Re: don't create storage when unnecessary

On Thu, Dec 06, 2018 at 06:55:52PM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Some time ago, after partitioned indexes had been pushed, I realized
> that even though I didn't want them to have relfilenodes, they did. And
> looking closer I noticed that *a lot* of relation kinds that didn't need
> relfilenodes, had them anyway.
>
> This patch fixes that; if no relfilenode is needed, it's not created.
>
> I didn't verify pg_upgrade behavior across this commit. Maybe something
> needs tweaking there.
>
> PS: I think it'd be worth following up with this ...
> https://postgr.es/m/CAFjFpRcfzs+yst6YBCseD_orEcDNuAr9GUTraZ5GC=AvCYh55Q@mail.gmail.com

A macro makes sense to control that. Now I have to admit that I don't
like your solution. Wouldn't it be cleaner to assign InvalidOid to
relfilenode in such cases? The callers of heap_create would need to be
made smarter when they now pass down a relfilenode (looking at you,
DefineIndex!), but that seems way more consistent to me. Some tests
would also be welcome.
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Michael