Re: MERGE PARTITIONS and DEPENDS ON EXTENSION.

On Wed, 22 Apr 2026 at 15:58, Matheus Alcantara
<matheusssilv97@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed Apr 22, 2026 at 7:48 AM -03, Kirill Reshke wrote:
> >> +-- An index created directly on a partition has no parent in the partitioned
> >> +-- index tree; merge must ignore such indexes (they disappear with the old
> >> +-- partition).
> >> +CREATE INDEX part_extdep_3_extra_idx ON part_extdep_3(x);
> >> +ALTER TABLE part_extdep MERGE PARTITIONS (part_extdep_merged, part_extdep_3)
> >> +    INTO part_extdep_merged2;
> >> +SELECT relname FROM pg_class
> >> +WHERE relname LIKE 'part_extdep_merged2%idx' ORDER BY relname;
> >
> > Looks like this test is also redundant? This does not test new DEPENDS ON logic.
> >
>
> I think that this test is useful to ensure that we correctly skip such
> indexes created directly on a specific partition. Perhaps we can include
> an ALTER INDEX ... DEPENDS ON for this specific index to make it more
> consistent with the other tests?
>
> --
> Matheus Alcantara
> EDB: https://www.enterprisedb.com

This test is maybe useful, but this is unrelated to what this thread &
fix is about, for my taste.

-- 
Best regards,
Kirill Reshke