Re: How to attach partition with primary key

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>
To: Philipp Faster <phfaster(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: "pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: How to attach partition with primary key
Date: 2024-06-18 14:43:40
Message-ID: 202406181443.ykwubo4pecdp@alvherre.pgsql
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On 2024-Jun-18, Philipp Faster wrote:

> I've done a bad job describing my issue in the first place: I left out a
> key definition statement that I thought doesn't play any role in the issue:
> another unique index on the same columns as PK.

I see. That unique index seems quite useless. Why not just drop it?
That would also solve your problem.

> Interesting thing is that if I define PK before the unique index and then
> drop it and redefine after the unique index, then the code still doesn't
> work. This behaviour smells like a bug on the PostgreSQL side...

Yeah, it sounds like we have a bug in the index-matching code, though
it depends on having a useless, duplicative index.

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