On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 7:46 PM, Alvaro Herrera
<alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> I updated Amit Langote's patch for INSERT ON CONFLICT DO UPDATE[1].
> Following the lead of edd44738bc88 ("Be lazier about partition tuple
> routing.") this incarnation only does the necessary push-ups for the
> specific partition that needs it, at execution time. As far as I can
> tell, it works as intended.
>
> I chose to refuse the case where the DO UPDATE clause causes the tuple
> to move to another partition (i.e. you're updating the partition key of
> the tuple). While it's probably possible to implement that, it doesn't
> seem a very productive use of time.
I would have thought that to be the only case we could support with
the current infrastructure. Doesn't a correct implementation for any
other case require a global index?
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