Re: Catalog views failed to show partitioned table information. - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Michael Paquier
Subject Re: Catalog views failed to show partitioned table information.
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Msg-id 20181214230032.GB5012@paquier.xyz
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In response to Catalog views failed to show partitioned table information.  (Suraj Kharage <suraj.kharage@enterprisedb.com>)
Responses Re: Catalog views failed to show partitioned table information.  (Amit Langote <Langote_Amit_f8@lab.ntt.co.jp>)
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On Fri, Dec 14, 2018 at 05:21:49PM +0530, Suraj Kharage wrote:
> There are some catalog views which do not show the partitioned table and
> its index entry.
> One of them is "pg_indexes" which failed to show the partitioned index.
> Attached the patch which fixes the same.

I tend to agree with your comment here.  pg_tables lists partitioned
tables, but pg_indexes is forgotting about partitioned indexes.  So this
is a good thing to add.

> Other views such as pg_stat*,pg_statio_* has the same problem for
> partitioned tables and indexes.
> Since the partitioned tables and its indexes considered as a dummy, they do
> not have any significance in stat tables,
> can we still consider adding relkind=p in these pg_stat_* views? Thoughts?

I am less sure about that as partitioned relations do not have a
physical presence.
--
Michael

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