pgsql: Support non-btree indexes for foreign keys

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org>
To: pgsql-committers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: pgsql: Support non-btree indexes for foreign keys
Date: 2025-02-07 10:32:09
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Support non-btree indexes for foreign keys

Previously, only btrees were supported as the referenced unique index
for foreign keys because there was no way to get the equality strategy
number for other index methods. We have this now (commit
c09e5a6a016), so we can support this. In fact, this is now just a
special case of the existing generalized "period" foreign key
support, since that already knows how to lookup equality strategy
numbers.

Note that this does not change the requirement that the referenced
index needs to be unique, and at the moment, only btree supports that,
so this does not change anything in practice, but it would allow
another index method that has amcanunique to be supported.

Co-authored-by: Mark Dilger <mark(dot)dilger(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/E72EAA49-354D-4C2E-8EB9-255197F55330(at)enterprisedb(dot)com

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master

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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/bfe21b760e039163b91279f58fd09a0298572775

Modified Files
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src/backend/commands/tablecmds.c | 57 ++++++++++++++++------------------------
1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 34 deletions(-)

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