Re: ALTER INDEX

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Cc: Gavin Sherry <swm(at)linuxworld(dot)com(dot)au>, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: ALTER INDEX
Date: 2004-08-20 04:46:32
Message-ID: 200408200446.i7K4kWr20599@candle.pha.pa.us
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Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Aug 2004, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> >
> > Patch applied. Thanks.
> >
> > I originally thought of this as a feature addition, but I realized that
> > ALTER INDEX is being added because people are going to want to move
> > tablespaces for indexes, and without this, they can't easily.
>
> Which would fall under adding a feature onto the tablespaces, not fixing a
> bug in tablespaces itself ... does *not* having ALTER INDEX *break*
> tablespaces? Causes it not to work, or not build?

No, but it is a missing capability many will complain about. I can
easily remove it. I saw no one comment when I added it to the patches
queue.

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