Re: ALTER tbl rewrite loses CLUSTER ON index

From: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
To: Justin Pryzby <pryzby(at)telsasoft(dot)com>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Amit Langote <amitlangote09(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: ALTER tbl rewrite loses CLUSTER ON index
Date: 2020-04-02 07:39:58
Message-ID: 20200402073958.GE112468@paquier.xyz
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On Thu, Apr 02, 2020 at 04:24:03PM +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 02, 2020 at 01:52:09AM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote:
>> Sounds right. Or else get_index_isclustered() could be redefined to take a
>> boolean "do_elog" flag, and if syscache fails and that's false, then return
>> false instead of ERROR.
>
> Not sure if that's completely right to do either. For one, it is not
> consistent with the surroundings as of lsyscache.c.

Actually, we do have some missing_ok flags lying around already in
lsyscache.c, so it would be much more consistent to use that name that
instead of the do_elog you are suggesting. Could you update the
patch to reflect that?
--
Michael

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