On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 03:03:31PM -0600, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 12:33:56PM +0000, Simon Riggs wrote:
> > There are no tests for the new functionality, please could you add some?
>
> Did you look at the most recent patch?
>
> +CREATE ACCESS METHOD heapdup TYPE TABLE HANDLER heap_tableam_handler;
> +CREATE TABLE likeam() USING heapdup;
> +CREATE TABLE likeamlike(LIKE likeam INCLUDING ALL);
>
> Also, I just realized that Dilip's toast compression patch adds "INCLUDING
> COMPRESSION", which is stored in pg_am. That's an implementation detail of
> that patch, but it's not intuitive that "including access method" wouldn't
> include the compression stored there. So I think this should use "INCLUDING
> TABLE ACCESS METHOD" not just ACCESS METHOD.
Since the TOAST patch ended up not using access methods after all, I renamed
this back to "like ACCESS METHOD" (without table).
For now, I left TableLikeOption un-alphabetized.
--
Justin
