Re: IDENTITY/GENERATED v36 Re: Final version of IDENTITY/GENERATED patch

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Zoltan Boszormenyi wrote:
> Hi
>
> Bruce Momjian ?rta:
> > Zoltan Boszormenyi wrote:
> >
> >> Hi!
> >>
> >> Thanks.
> >>
> >> However, in the meantime I made some changes
> >> so the IDENTITY column only advances its sequence
> >> if it fails its CHECK constraints or UNIQUE indexes.
> >> I still have some work with expression indexes.
> >> Should I post an incremental patch against this version
> >> or a full patch when it's ready?
> >>
> >
> > Full patch.
> >
>
> Then here it is. Now it's really finished, I promise. :-)
> Changes:
>
> - unique index checks are done in two steps
>   to avoid inflating the sequence if a unique index check
>   is failed that doesn't reference the IDENTITY column
> - to minimize runtime impact of checking whether
>   an index references the IDENTITY column and skipping it
>   in the first step in ExecInsertIndexTuples(), I introduced
>   a new attribute in the pg_index catalog. I had to place it
>   in the middle of the fixed size attributes because I had
>   mysterious crashes otherwise. This means the attributes
>   are renumbered. This attribute is determined during
>   CREATE INDEX and recomputed for all indexes defined
>   on the table during ALTER TABLE SET/DROP IDENTITY.
> - as a consequence, IDENTITY/GENERATED can now
>   have CHECK constraints, this limit was removed.
> - modified testcase for the above changes
> - reworded documentation
>
> Please, review.
>
> Best regards,
> Zolt?n B?sz?rm?nyi
>

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