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Re: ALTER TABLE SET ACCESS METHOD on partitioned tables

Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>

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From: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
To: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Cc: Soumyadeep Chakraborty <soumyadeep2007@gmail.com>, Zhihong Yu <zyu@yugabyte.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Ashwin Agrawal <ashwinstar@gmail.com>, vanjared@vmware.com
Date: 2023-07-19T18:13:48Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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On Thu, Jun 01, 2023 at 08:50:50AM -0400, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Wed, May 31, 2023 at 06:35:34PM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> > What do you think the comment ought to say ?  It already says:
> >
> > src/backend/catalog/heap.c-              * Make a dependency link to force the relation to be deleted if its
> > src/backend/catalog/heap.c-              * access method is.
> 
> This is the third location where we rely on the fact that
> RELKIND_HAS_TABLE_AM() does not include RELKIND_PARTITIONED_TABLE, so
> it seems worth documenting what we are relying on as a comment?  Say:
>  * Make a dependency link to force the relation to be deleted if its
>  * access method is.
>  *
>  * No need to add an explicit dependency for the toast table, as the
>  * main table depends on it.  Partitioned tables have a table access
>  * method defined, and RELKIND_HAS_TABLE_AM ignores them.

You said that this location "relies on" the macro not including
partitioned tables, but I would say the opposite: the places that use
RELKIND_HAS_TABLE_AM() and do *not* say "or relkind==PARTITIONED_TABLE"
are the ones that "rely on" that...

Anyway, this updates various comments.  No other changes.

-- 
Justin

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  1. Add information about access method for partitioned relations in \dP+

  2. Fix dumps of partitioned tables with table AMs

  3. Don't use the pg_am system catalog in new test

  4. ALTER TABLE: rework determination of access method ID

  5. Allow specifying an access method for partitioned tables

  6. Review wording on tablespaces w.r.t. partitioned tables

  7. Add support for DEFAULT in ALTER TABLE .. SET ACCESS METHOD

  8. Update comment of AlterTableCmd->name in parsenodes.h