Re: Partitioned tables and covering indexes

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie>
Cc: Alexander Korotkov <a(dot)korotkov(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>, Teodor Sigaev <teodor(at)sigaev(dot)ru>, Amit Langote <Langote_Amit_f8(at)lab(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp>, Jaime Casanova <jaime(dot)casanova(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Partitioned tables and covering indexes
Date: 2018-04-11 22:11:36
Message-ID: 641a91aa-19ef-e092-dd4c-2554487169fc@2ndquadrant.com
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On 4/11/18 17:38, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 2:29 PM, Peter Eisentraut
> <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
>> But in this case it doesn't even do equality comparison, it just returns
>> the value.
>
> That's the idea that I tried to express. The point is that we need to
> tell the user that there is no need to worry about it, rather than
> that they're wrong to ask about it. Though we should probably actually
> just throw an error.

Or maybe it should be the collation of the underlying table columns.
Otherwise the collation returned by an index-only scan would be
different from a table scan, no?

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Peter Eisentraut http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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