On Thu, Aug 08, 2019 at 05:42:21PM +0900, Amit Langote wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 8, 2019 at 5:33 PM amul sul <sulamul@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 8, 2019 at 1:27 PM Amit Langote <amitlangote09@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >> Thanks for the patch. This was discussed recently in the "hyrax vs.
> >> RelationBuildPartitionDesc()" thread [1] and I think Alvaro proposed
> >> an approach that's similar to yours. Not sure why it wasn't pursued
> >> though. Maybe the reason is buried somewhere in that discussion.
> >
> > Oh, quite similar, thanks Amit for pointing that out.
> >
> > Look like "hyrax vs.RelationBuildPartitionDesc()" is in discussion for the master
> > branch only, not sure though, but we need the similar fix for the back branches as well.
>
> Well, this is not a bug as such, so it's very unlikely that a fix like
> this will be back-patched. Also, if this becomes an issue only for
> more than over 1000 partitions, then it's not very relevant for PG 10
> and PG 11, because we don't recommend using so many partitions with
> them. Maybe we can consider fixing PG 12 though.
A fix for the thousands-of-partitions case would be very welcome for 12.
Best,
David.
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