Re: Partitioned tables and relfilenode

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Amit Langote <Langote_Amit_f8(at)lab(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Kyotaro HORIGUCHI <horiguchi(dot)kyotaro(at)lab(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp>, Amit Langote <amitlangote09(at)gmail(dot)com>, Maksim Milyutin <m(dot)milyutin(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Partitioned tables and relfilenode
Date: 2017-04-11 13:45:00
Message-ID: 28523.1491918300@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Amit Langote <Langote_Amit_f8(at)lab(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp> writes:
> 2. DefineQueryRewrite() may try to scan a partitioned table in the case of
> converting a table to view, where we must make sure that the table being
> converted is empty. It's checked by scanning the heap, which we should
> not do for a partitioned table. Nor should we try to drop the storage
> once ready to make the table into a REKIND_VIEW relation (because all
> other checks passed okaying the conversion).

It looks like this patch intends to allow converting a partitioned table
to a view. I would lobby for refusing the command, instead. There is
no good reason to allow it, and it might well be a user error.

regards, tom lane

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