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From: Robert Haas <[email protected]>
To: Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
Cc: Justin Pryzby <[email protected]>
Cc: Michael Paquier <[email protected]>
Cc: Soumyadeep Chakraborty <[email protected]>
Cc: Zhihong Yu <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: Ashwin Agrawal <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: ALTER TABLE SET ACCESS METHOD on partitioned tables
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2024 12:04:47 -0500
Message-ID: <CA+TgmoZ-t+_Wy2vsaTwqZUSOLhqjT_S9=c5Ku0ih+uTUdUV8hg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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On Thu, Feb 1, 2024 at 10:51 AM Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]> wrote:
> I think this works similarly but not identically to tablespace defaults,
> and the difference could be confusing.  You seem to have made it so that
> the partitioned table _always_ have a table AM, so the partitions can
> always inherit from it.  I think it would be more sensible to _allow_
> partitioned tables to have one, but not mandatory; if they don't have
> it, then a partition created from it would use default_table_access_method.

I agree that we don't want this feature to invent any new behavior. If
it's clearly and fully parallel to what we do for tablespaces, then I
think it's probably OK, but anything less than that would be a cause
for concern for me.

-- 
Robert Haas
EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com

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