Re: pgsql: Fix assorted missing infrastructure for ON CONFLICT.

From: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)heroku(dot)com>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-committers <pgsql-committers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pgsql: Fix assorted missing infrastructure for ON CONFLICT.
Date: 2016-05-11 21:00:35
Message-ID: CAM3SWZSsVcvNc7AFK0avNvQcHkxdsibWj5HhdObfG-44hKiMow@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 1:54 PM, Alvaro Herrera
<alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> My guess is that it means we do support indexes in system columns (oid
> in particular) and that instead of an ugly error this should do
> something else. Maybe silently ignore the index.

Why ignore the index? Either they're not supported, and we should
throw an error (granted, a less ugly one), or they are supported, and
inference should succeed.

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Peter Geoghegan

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