Re: [POC] hash partitioning

From: amul sul <sulamul(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Ashutosh Bapat <ashutosh(dot)bapat(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Yugo Nagata <nagata(at)sraoss(dot)co(dot)jp>, David Steele <david(at)pgmasters(dot)net>, Greg Stark <stark(at)mit(dot)edu>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [POC] hash partitioning
Date: 2017-05-16 04:33:06
Message-ID: CAAJ_b97p5h-DsMQwZ5bTEPxOsQYAr_jJO9y0yac4fbGWyOBSVQ@mail.gmail.com
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On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 9:13 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 6:57 AM, amul sul <sulamul(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>>> Collation is only relevant for ordering, not equality. Since hash
>>> opclasses provide only equality, not ordering, it's not relevant here.
>>> I'm not sure whether we should error out if it's specified or just
>>> silently ignore it. Maybe an ERROR is a good idea? But not sure.
>>>
>> IMHO, we could simply have a WARNING, and ignore collation, thoughts?
>>
>> Updated patches attached.
>
> I think that WARNING is rarely a good compromise between ERROR and
> nothing. I think we should just decide whether this is legal (and
> then allow it without a WARNING) or not legal (and then ERROR).
> Telling the user that it's allowed but we don't like it doesn't really
> help much.

Understood, will throw an ERROR instead.

Thank you.

Regards,
Amul

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