Re: unlogged sequences

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: unlogged sequences
Date: 2022-04-01 17:41:53
Message-ID: CA+TgmoaPV3s3xL-ajMm3NuxWA9VWkcBUvmVaSt9-bua=ESFgRQ@mail.gmail.com
Views: Raw Message | Whole Thread | Download mbox | Resend email
Thread:
Lists: pgsql-hackers

On Fri, Apr 1, 2022 at 12:31 PM Peter Eisentraut
<peter(dot)eisentraut(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
> > An "internal" dependency means that the internal object shouldn't really
> > be operated on directly. (In some cases it's allowed for convenience.)
> > So I think in that case the sequence must follow the table's persistence
> > in all cases. This is accomplished by setting the initial persistence
> > to the table's, making ALTER TABLE propagate persistence changes, and
> > prohibiting direct ALTER SEQUENCE SET.
>
> But to make pg_upgrade work for identity sequences of unlogged tables,
> we need to allow ALTER SEQUENCE ... SET LOGGED on such sequences. Which
> I guess is not a real problem in the end.

And I think also SET UNLOGGED, since it would be weird IMHO to make
such a change irreversible.

--
Robert Haas
EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com

In response to

Browse pgsql-hackers by date

  From Date Subject
Next Message Nathan Bossart 2022-04-01 17:44:09 Re: Can we automatically add elapsed times to tap test log?
Previous Message Robert Haas 2022-04-01 17:22:05 PostgreSQL shutdown modes