Re: [HACKERS] Proposal: Local indexes for partitioned table

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>
Cc: David Rowley <david(dot)rowley(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Maksim Milyutin <milyutinma(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Proposal: Local indexes for partitioned table
Date: 2017-12-18 02:03:21
Message-ID: CA+TgmoZPBOFAbSD3dS8Mwme0BjuR6eQ9Mc04U6Kbmb7fztP00w@mail.gmail.com
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On Sun, Dec 17, 2017 at 10:50 AM, Alvaro Herrera
<alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> wrote:
>> If ALTER INDEX .. ATTACH is already taking AEL on the parent, then I
>> think it might as well try to validate while it's at it. But if not
>> then we might want to go with #2.
>
> The problem I have with it is that restoring a dump containing indexes
> on partitions becomes a O(N^2) deal as it has to do the full check once
> for every index we attach.

Sure. If the constant factor is high enough to matter, then VALIDATE
makes sense.

IMHO, anyway.

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Robert Haas
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The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company

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