From: | David Rowley <david(dot)rowley(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
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To: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
Cc: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>, 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: | 2017-12-07 23:06:43 |
Message-ID: | CAKJS1f_A-whHVYWQYuf-1XAAo_cGEQSg5BuD3FToAAZ1ETptYQ@mail.gmail.com |
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On 8 December 2017 at 11:23, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 7, 2017 at 4:57 PM, David Rowley
> <david(dot)rowley(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
>> That's true, but is it worth inventing/maintaining an ATTACH syntax
>> for that? It's not a very common case that multiple matching indexes
>> existing. If it is worth it, do we need DETACH at all?
>
> I think it is totally worth it. A little piece of extra DDL syntax
> isn't that really costing us anything. Your proposed approach
> probably still has obscure failure cases - e.g. I bet the
> deadlock-avoidance logic in parallel restore won't know about the
> dependency on a seemingly-unrelated object. Also, the use of a
> seemingly-useless REPLACE syntax in every dump file will probably
> confuse at least a few users, and maybe a few developers, too. I
> think there is considerable value, both for the system and for the
> humans who use it, in having something that has *exactly* the
> semantics we want rather than *almost* the semantics we want.
>
> I suppose if we want to get cute, we could have ONLY the ATTACH
> syntax; if you attach an index for a partition that already has an
> index attached, that could mean attach to the new one instead of the
> old one (i.e. replace). But I would just add support for both ATTACH
> and REPLACE and call it good.
ATTACH/REPLACE sounds fine. My objection was more about the
DETACH/ATTACH method to replace an index.
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David Rowley http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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