Re: [HACKERS] Proposal: Local indexes for partitioned table

On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 12:10 PM, Maksim Milyutin
<m.milyutin@postgrespro.ru> wrote:
> 1. I have added a new relkind for local indexes named RELKIND_LOCAL_INDEX
> (literal 'l').

Seems like it should maybe be RELKIND_PARTITIONED_INDEX.  There's
nothing particularly "local" about it.  I suppose what you're going
for is that it's not global, but in a way it *is* global to the
partitioning hierarchy.  That's the point.  It's just that it's
partitioned.

> Perhaps, it's not good way to use pg_depend to determine the relationship
> between parent and child indexes because the kind of this relationship is
> not defined. I could propose to add into pg_index table specific field of
> 'oidvector' type that specify oids of dependent indexes for the current
> local index.

I agree with Greg's comment on this point.

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