Re: Fix for pg_upgrade and invalid indexes

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Fix for pg_upgrade and invalid indexes
Date: 2013-03-30 17:01:34
Message-ID: 20130330170134.GA23500@alap2.anarazel.de
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On 2013-03-29 19:03:05 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> > Those columns cannot be NULL, so using IS DISTINCT FROM seems a bit
> > clumsy.
>
> That was what I started to write, too, but actually I think the IS
> DISTINCT is correct and the RIGHT JOIN should be a LEFT JOIN. Note
> that the query appears to be intended to collect regular tables as
> well as indexes. (As patched, that's totally broken, so I infer
> Bruce hasn't tested it yet.)

Ah yes. Then I'd actually find it much more readable to formulate it as a NOT
EXISTS(), but that might be just me.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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