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

From Simon Riggs
Subject Re: Indexes on partitioned tables and foreign partitions
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Msg-id CANP8+jLQvaOBbZHJS5+Mrj59+1Zti6CnuOpsh6tBM3uQ+K0idg@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Indexes on partitioned tables and foreign partitions  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Indexes on partitioned tables and foreign partitions  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
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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.

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