Re: missing toast table for pg_policy

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, John Naylor <jcnaylor(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: missing toast table for pg_policy
Date: 2018-07-20 00:03:57
Message-ID: 20180720000356.5zkhvfpsqswngyob@alap3.anarazel.de
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On 2018-07-20 08:56:32 +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 04:50:06PM -0700, Andres Freund wrote:
> > On 2018-07-20 08:46:50 +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
> >> On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 07:18:32PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> I have found the argument about circular dependencies rather sensible
> >> FWIW. So at the end it seems to me that we would not want to add toast
> >> tables for those catalogs.
> >
> > As argued a fair bit ago, I think that isn't actually an issue: As long
> > as we keep the boostrap relevant fields from being toasted, there's no
> > issue with circularlity. Given the initial contents are defined to be
> > static or live in relmapper there's no danger of that accidentally
> > happening.
>
> I still have some doubts about issues hidden behind our backs with a
> knife ready to hit... The patch committed is already a good cut I
> think, and addresses the original complaints from Joe and me.

I disagree fairly strongly. I think that's a half-assed way to address
the concerns raised in this thread. All but guarantees that we'll have
this discussion again.

> >> That could be nice, but separate from the fact of adding a toast table
> >> to it?
> >
> > Yea, that seems mostly independent.
>
> Please don't tell me that I forgot to bump CATALOG_VERSION_NO, and that
> it needs to be bumped..

You mean I shouldn't say that it needs to because you already know?
Because obviously, yes, that's required and appears to be missing?

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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