On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 4:28 AM, Konstantin Knizhnik
<k.knizh...@postgrespro.ru> wrote:
> Please notice that such alter table statement, changing condition for
> partial index, is not supported now.
> But I do not see any principle problems with supporting such construction.
> We should just include in the index all records which match new condition
> and do not match old condition:
>
>    ts < '21/01/2016' and not (ts < '20/01/2016')

You'd also need to remove any rows from the index that match the old
condition but not the new one.  In your example, that's impossible,
but in general, it's definitely possible.

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Robert Haas
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