Re: ALTER TABLE ... SET STORAGE does not propagate to indexes

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Kuntal Ghosh <kuntalghosh(dot)2007(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: ALTER TABLE ... SET STORAGE does not propagate to indexes
Date: 2020-05-08 08:17:07
Message-ID: a9e80081-25a2-b2fa-313c-fb86d2549546@2ndquadrant.com
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On 2020-05-06 16:37, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On 2020-04-22 16:26, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> On 2020-04-22 01:56, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>>> I'm surprised that this hasn't applied yet, because:
>>>
>>> On 2020-Apr-09, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>>>
>>>> One thing to remember is that the current situation is broken. While you
>>>> can set index columns to have different storage than the corresponding table
>>>> columns, pg_dump does not preserve that, because it dumps indexes after
>>>> ALTER TABLE commands. So at the moment, having these two things different
>>>> isn't really supported.
>>>
>>> So I have to ask -- are you planning to get this patch pushed and
>>> backpatched?
>>
>> I think I should, but I figured I want to give some extra time for
>> people to consider the horror that I created in the test_decoding tests.
>
> OK then, if there are no last-minute objects, I'll commit this for the
> upcoming minor releases.

I have committed this and backpatched to PG12 and PG11. Before that,
the catalog manipulation code is factored quite differently and it would
be more complicated to backpatch and I didn't find that worth it.

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Peter Eisentraut http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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