Re: Indexes on partitioned tables and foreign partitions

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Arseny Sher <a(dot)sher(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>, "pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Indexes on partitioned tables and foreign partitions
Date: 2018-05-09 15:15:09
Message-ID: CA+TgmoaHbg3v58KfLiZjzKb5Ufcr0TQsdn37j3wtSnqiWSyZvg@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 11:14 AM, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> On 9 May 2018 at 16:10, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>>> On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 9:08 AM, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
>>>> Shouldn't the fix be to allow creation of indexes on foreign tables?
>>>> (Maybe they would be virtual or foreign indexes??)
>>
>>> It might be useful to invent the concept of a foreign index, but not
>>> for v11 a month after feature freeze.
>>
>> Yeah. That's a can of worms we can *not* open at this stage.
>
> Lucky nobody suggested that then, eh? Robert's just making a joke.

Someone did suggest that. It was you.

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Robert Haas
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