Re: ON CONFLICT DO UPDATE for partitioned tables

From: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>, Amit Langote <Langote_Amit_f8(at)lab(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp>, Pavan Deolasee <pavan(dot)deolasee(at)gmail(dot)com>, Etsuro Fujita <fujita(dot)etsuro(at)lab(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: ON CONFLICT DO UPDATE for partitioned tables
Date: 2018-04-19 19:21:40
Message-ID: CAH2-WzmPZUb68f4hvDGgZBKJ2KMdvaJRwwfYH=5EHUOrzKuK0w@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 12:00 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 1:20 PM, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> wrote:
>> How about simply relaxing the tdtypeid test from equalTupleDescs? I
>> haven't looked deeply but I think just checking whether or not both are
>> RECORDOID might be sufficient, for typecache purposes.
>
> That strike me as a very scary thing to do. There's code all over the
> system that may have non-obvious assumptions about the behavior of
> equalTupleDescs(), and I don't think we can have any confidence that
> nothing will break unless we do a detailed audit of all that code.

+1. I think that it is plainly a bad idea to do something like that at
this point in the cycle.

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Peter Geoghegan

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