Re: Indexes on partitioned tables and foreign partitions - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Robert Haas
Subject Re: Indexes on partitioned tables and foreign partitions
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In response to Re: Indexes on partitioned tables and foreign partitions  (Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>)
Responses Re: Indexes on partitioned tables and foreign partitions  (Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>)
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On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 11:14 AM, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> On 9 May 2018 at 16:10, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
>>> On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 9:08 AM, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
>>>> Shouldn't the fix be to allow creation of indexes on foreign tables?
>>>> (Maybe they would be virtual or foreign indexes??)
>>
>>> It might be useful to invent the concept of a foreign index, but not
>>> for v11 a month after feature freeze.
>>
>> Yeah.  That's a can of worms we can *not* open at this stage.
>
> Lucky nobody suggested that then, eh? Robert's just making a joke.

Someone did suggest that.  It was you.

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Robert Haas
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