Re: Indexes on partitioned tables and foreign partitions

From: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, 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 15:14:30
Message-ID: CANP8+jLQvaOBbZHJS5+Mrj59+1Zti6CnuOpsh6tBM3uQ+K0idg@mail.gmail.com
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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.

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Simon Riggs http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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