Re: TOAST table created for partitioned tables

On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 1:51 PM, Michael Paquier
<michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 11:38:58PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Yeah, pg_upgrade already has to cope with cases where the newer version
>> thinks a table needs a toast table when the older version didn't, or
>> vice versa. This looks like it ought to fall into that category.
>> Not that testing it wouldn't be a good idea.
>
> As far as I can see this statement is true. If you create a parent
> partition table in a v10 cluster, and then upgrade to HEAD with this
> patch applied, you'll be able to notice that the relation still has its
> toast table present, while newly-created parent partitions would have
> nothing. (Just tested, I didn't review the patch in details).

Thanks for checking. I too checked that pg_upgrading v10 cluster
containing partitioned tables that have a TOAST table attached to it
works normally and like Michael says, the TOAST table remains.

Thanks,
Amit