On 2019-03-28 17:46, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Thanks, Michael and Peter, for responding; however there is a second
> part to the question, which is "should I change the recursivity of
> REPLICA IDENTITY, while not simultaneously changing the recusivity of
> the TABLESPACE and OWNER TO forms of ALTER TABLE?"
>
> I think everyone agrees that REPLICA IDENTITY should be changed. The
> question is whether it's bad behavior from my part to change it
> separately from changing every other non-currently-recursive form.
If this were new functionality, I would tend to think that ALTER TABLE
should by default recurse for everything. I don't know the history of
why it is not done for some things. It might be a mistake, just like
the replica identity case apparently is.
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