Hi
Already mentioned this in
https://postgr.es/m/20180831205020.nxhw6ypysgshjtnl@alvherre.pgsql
While trying to add support for foreign keys to partitioned tables, I
noticed that commit 8224de4f42cc ("Indexes with INCLUDE columns and
their support in B-tree") added a column to pg_constraint that appears
to be there only to enable ruleutils.c to print out the list of columns
in a PRIMARY KEY or UNIQUE constraint that uses included columns.
However, this is pretty easy to obtain from pg_index.conkey instead, so
I claim that that column is useless. In fact, here's a patch to remove
it.
This requires a catversion bump, for which it may seem a bit late;
however I think it's better to release pg11 without a useless catalog
column only to remove it in pg12 ...
Thoughts?
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Álvaro Herrera