Re: Disallow unique index on system columns - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Disallow unique index on system columns
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Msg-id 8604.1460682146@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Disallow unique index on system columns  (David Rowley <david.rowley@2ndquadrant.com>)
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Re: Disallow unique index on system columns
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David Rowley <david.rowley@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> I proposed a fix over there, but it didn't go anywhere, probably
> because Tom and Andres discussed just disallowing unique indexes on
> system columns altogether. So, the attached patch does just that, and
> also fixes up the replica identity bugs too, as it's still possible
> that someone could create a unique index on a system column with an
> old version, upgrade, then try to set the replica identity to that
> index. We'd need to handle that correctly, so I fixed that too.

AFAIR, what we were discussing was disallowing any index on a system
column (other than OID).  I do not see why only unique indexes are
problematic for them; the semantic issues are independent of that.
        regards, tom lane



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