Re: Indexes on partitioned tables and foreign partitions

Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>

From: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Arseny Sher <a.sher@postgrespro.ru>, "pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2018-05-09T15:20:02Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On 9 May 2018 at 16:15, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 11:14 AM, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
>> On 9 May 2018 at 16:10, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>>> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
>>>> On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 9:08 AM, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.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.
>
> Someone did suggest that.  It was you.

Oh, you weren't joking. I think we're having serious problems with
people putting words in my mouth again then.

Please show me where I suggested doing anything for v11?

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Commits

  1. Don't allow partitioned index on foreign-table partitions