From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
To: David Rowley <david.rowley@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Cc: Maksim Milyutin <m.milyutin@postgrespro.ru>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Proposal: Local indexes for partitioned table
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2017 13:30:28 +0100
Message-ID: <20171114123027.3z7l75gg4cfuy24v@alvherre.pgsql> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKJS1f_m-PbyOZg1H9Gtu4Eb=b7yrWPO-=TJCQhpLA8_a8qqSw@mail.gmail.com>
David Rowley wrote:
> On 15 November 2017 at 01:09, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> wrote:
> > if a
> > partition exists which *doesn't* have the index, restoring things this
> > way would create the index in that partition too, which is unwanted
> > because the end state is different to what was in the dumped database.
>
> hmm, but surely the all those indexes must already exist if the
> partitioned index exists. Won't we be disallowing DROP INDEX of the
> leaf partition indexes if that index is marked as being part of the
> partitioned index?
In normal cases, sure -- but you can do ALTER INDEX DETACH on a
partition, then drop the index. This is useful for example if you want
to replace some partition's index because of bloat: create a replacement
index, detach the old one, attach the new one, drop the old one. Now
you probably don't *want* to take a pg_dump in the middle of this
process ... but pg_dump's charter is not to produce the output we think
would be most convenient to users most of the time, but rather to
accurately describe what is in the database.
--
Álvaro Herrera https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services
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