Re: ALTER TABLE SET ACCESS METHOD on partitioned tables

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org>
To: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
Cc: Justin Pryzby <pryzby(at)telsasoft(dot)com>, Soumyadeep Chakraborty <soumyadeep2007(at)gmail(dot)com>, Zhihong Yu <zyu(at)yugabyte(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Ashwin Agrawal <ashwinstar(at)gmail(dot)com>, vanjared(at)vmware(dot)com
Subject: Re: ALTER TABLE SET ACCESS METHOD on partitioned tables
Date: 2024-02-21 07:46:48
Message-ID: cab23590-19d4-4895-9333-1c25f4194741@eisentraut.org
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On 21.02.24 07:40, Michael Paquier wrote:
> This means that all partitioned tables would have pg_class.relam set,
> and that relam would never be 0:
> - The USING clause takes priority over default_table_access_method.
> - If no USING clause, default_table_access_method is the AM used
>
> Any partitions created from this partitioned table would inherit the
> AM set, ignoring default_table_access_method.
>
> Alvaro has made a very good point a couple of days ago at [1] where we
> should try to make the behavior stick closer to tablespaces, where it
> could be possible to set relam to 0 for a partitioned table, where a
> partition would inherit the AM set in the GUC when a USING clause is
> not defined (if USING specifies the AM, we'd just use it).

Yes, I think most people agreed that that would be the preferred behavior.

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