Re: unsupportable composite type partition keys

From: Amit Langote <amitlangote09(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: unsupportable composite type partition keys
Date: 2019-12-24 01:20:28
Message-ID: CA+HiwqHYfc8taAAE2O46UbDRR3VQ7FEZYyzrHDi60a4D-0Vp6w@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Dec 24, 2019 at 12:00 AM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> BTW, I forgot to mention: while I think the patch to forbid pseudotypes
> by using CheckAttributeType() can be back-patched, I'm leaning towards
> not back-patching the other patch. The situation where we get into
> infinite recursion seems not very likely in practice, and it's not
> going to cause any crash or data loss, so I think we can just say
> "sorry that's not supported before v13". The patch as I'm proposing
> it seems rather invasive for a back-branch fix.

It is indeed.

Just to be sure, by going with "unsupported before v13", which one do you mean:

* documenting it as so
* giving an error in such cases, like the patch in the first email on
this thread did
* doing nothing really

Thanks,
Amit

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