Re: Dependencies for partitioned indexes are still a mess - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: Dependencies for partitioned indexes are still a mess
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Msg-id 20200814173008.GA21298@alvherre.pgsql
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In response to Re: Dependencies for partitioned indexes are still a mess  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>)
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On 2020-Aug-12, Alvaro Herrera wrote:

> Hmm, we do make the FK constraint depend on the ATTACH for the direct
> children; what I think we're lacking is dependencies on descendants
> twice-removed (?) or higher.  This mock patch seems to fix this problem
> by adding dependencies recursively on all children of the index; I no
> longer see this problem with it.

After going over this some more, this analysis seems correct.  Here's a
better version of the patch which seems final to me.

I'm not yet clear on whether the noisy DROP INDEX is an actual bug that
needs to be fixed, or instead it needs to be left alone.

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Álvaro Herrera                https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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