Re: ALTER TABLE ... SET STORAGE does not propagate to indexes

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Kuntal Ghosh <kuntalghosh(dot)2007(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: ALTER TABLE ... SET STORAGE does not propagate to indexes
Date: 2020-04-22 14:26:48
Message-ID: 8be09419-ed3d-93f9-9c29-2824b44a2c56@2ndquadrant.com
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On 2020-04-22 01:56, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> I'm surprised that this hasn't applied yet, because:
>
> On 2020-Apr-09, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>
>> One thing to remember is that the current situation is broken. While you
>> can set index columns to have different storage than the corresponding table
>> columns, pg_dump does not preserve that, because it dumps indexes after
>> ALTER TABLE commands. So at the moment, having these two things different
>> isn't really supported.
>
> So I have to ask -- are you planning to get this patch pushed and
> backpatched?

I think I should, but I figured I want to give some extra time for
people to consider the horror that I created in the test_decoding tests.

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Peter Eisentraut http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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