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Re: Broken defenses against dropping a partitioning column

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>

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From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org, Manuel Rigger <rigger.manuel@gmail.com>
Date: 2019-07-22T19:34:59Z
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On 2019-Jul-22, Tom Lane wrote:

> I nearly missed the need for that because of all the noise that
> check-world emits in pre-v12 branches.  We'd discussed back-patching
> eb9812f27 at the time, and I think now it's tested enough that doing
> so is low risk (or at least, lower risk than the risk of not seeing
> a failure).  So I think I'll go do that now.

I'd like that, as it bites me too, thanks.

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Álvaro Herrera                https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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Commits

  1. Make pg_upgrade's test.sh less chatty.

  2. Install dependencies to prevent dropping partition key columns.