Re: Catalog views failed to show partitioned table information.

From: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
To: Suraj Kharage <suraj(dot)kharage(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Catalog views failed to show partitioned table information.
Date: 2018-12-14 23:00:32
Message-ID: 20181214230032.GB5012@paquier.xyz
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On Fri, Dec 14, 2018 at 05:21:49PM +0530, Suraj Kharage wrote:
> There are some catalog views which do not show the partitioned table and
> its index entry.
> One of them is "pg_indexes" which failed to show the partitioned index.
> Attached the patch which fixes the same.

I tend to agree with your comment here. pg_tables lists partitioned
tables, but pg_indexes is forgotting about partitioned indexes. So this
is a good thing to add.

> Other views such as pg_stat*,pg_statio_* has the same problem for
> partitioned tables and indexes.
> Since the partitioned tables and its indexes considered as a dummy, they do
> not have any significance in stat tables,
> can we still consider adding relkind=p in these pg_stat_* views? Thoughts?

I am less sure about that as partitioned relations do not have a
physical presence.
--
Michael

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