Re: unsupportable composite type partition keys - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Amit Langote
Subject Re: unsupportable composite type partition keys
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Msg-id CA+HiwqHYfc8taAAE2O46UbDRR3VQ7FEZYyzrHDi60a4D-0Vp6w@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: unsupportable composite type partition keys  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: unsupportable composite type partition keys  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Tue, Dec 24, 2019 at 12:00 AM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> BTW, I forgot to mention: while I think the patch to forbid pseudotypes
> by using CheckAttributeType() can be back-patched, I'm leaning towards
> not back-patching the other patch.  The situation where we get into
> infinite recursion seems not very likely in practice, and it's not
> going to cause any crash or data loss, so I think we can just say
> "sorry that's not supported before v13".  The patch as I'm proposing
> it seems rather invasive for a back-branch fix.

It is indeed.

Just to be sure, by going with "unsupported before v13", which one do you mean:

* documenting it as so
* giving an error in such cases, like the patch in the first email on
this thread did
* doing nothing really

Thanks,
Amit



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