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Re: [HACKERS] Surjective functional indexes

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>

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From: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Konstantin Knizhnik <k.knizhnik@postgrespro.ru>, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>, Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>, Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org>, Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@enterprisedb.com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2018-05-11T03:32:27Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On 2018-05-10 23:25:58 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 1, 2018 at 2:48 PM, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
> > I still don't think, as commented upon by Tom and me upthread, that we
> > want this feature in the current form.
> 
> Was this concern ever addressed, or did the patch just get committed anyway?

No. Simon just claimed it's not actually a concern:
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CANP8+j+vtskPhEp_GmqmEqdWaKSt2KbOtee0yz-my+Agh0aRPw@mail.gmail.com

And yes, it got committed without doing squat to address the
architectural concerns.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

Commits

  1. Finish reverting "recheck_on_update" patch.