Re: Table partition with primary key in 11.3

From: David Rowley <david(dot)rowley(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, "Alex V(dot)" <in_flight(at)pclovers(dot)ru>, pgsql-general <pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>, tgl <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Subject: Re: Table partition with primary key in 11.3
Date: 2019-06-06 22:00:28
Message-ID: CAKJS1f_cRNf=5Av5fxNYzYir7zR2yzU5Ws6zC6kz1coKx4mE6A@mail.gmail.com
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On Fri, 7 Jun 2019 at 08:48, Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie> wrote:
> Andres has
> suggested that I work on variable-width table identifiers in nbtree
> for the benefit of pluggable storage engines, but I don't have much
> enthusiasm for the idea of doing that without delivering a clear
> benefit to users in the same release.

You may already be aware, but another use case for such variable-width
identifiers was with indirect indexes as discussed in [1]

[1] https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20161018182843.xczrxsa2yd47pnru%40alvherre.pgsql

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