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Re: alter table set TABLE ACCESS METHOD

Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>

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From: Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>
To: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
Cc: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Jacob Champion <pchampion@vmware.com>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>, Ashwin Agrawal <aagrawal@pivotal.io>, Ashutosh Sharma <ashu.coek88@gmail.com>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>, Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut@gmail.com>
Date: 2021-06-03T21:36:15Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Thu, 2021-05-06 at 17:24 -0700, Jeff Davis wrote:
> It's the table AM's responsibility to detoast out-of-line datums and
> toast any values that are too large (see
> heapam.c:heap_prepare_insert()).

Do we have general agreement on this point? Did I miss another purpose
of detoasting in tablecmds.c, or can we just remove that part of the
patch?

Regards,
	Jeff Davis

Commits

  1. Allow specifying an access method for partitioned tables

  2. Fix regression test output of sepgsql

  3. Add call to object access hook at the end of table rewrite in ALTER TABLE

  4. Fix typo in tab-complete.c

  5. Add support for SET ACCESS METHOD in ALTER TABLE

  6. tableam: introduce table AM infrastructure.