Erikjan Rijkers wrote: > On 2017-08-18 11:12, Ildar Musin wrote: > > Hi hackers, > > > > While we've been developing pg_pathman extension one of the most > > frequent questions we got from our users was about global index > > support. We cannot provide it within an extension. And I couldn't find > > any recent discussion about someone implementing it. So I'm thinking > > about giving it a shot and start working on a patch for postgres. > > Sorry to be dense but what exactly is a "Global Index"?
A global index covers all partitions of a partitioned table. It allows you to have unique indexes across the partitioned table. The main disadvantage of global indexes is that you need some kind of cleanup after you drop a partition. Either make partition drop wait until all the index pointers are removed, or you need some kind of after-commit cleanup process that removes them afterwards (which requires some assurance that they are really all gone). You can't let them linger forever, or you risk a new partition that reuses the same OID causing the whole index to become automatically corrupt. -- Álvaro Herrera https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
