* Tom Lane (t...@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote: > Perhaps the correct fix would be to mark stored query trees as having a > dependency on the index, so that dropping the index/constraint would > force a drop of the rule too. Just pushing the check to plan time, as > I suggested yesterday, isn't a very nice fix because it would result > in the rule unexpectedly starting to fail at execution.
Alternatively, we could rewrite the rule (not unlike what we do for "SELECT *") to actually add on the other implicitly grouped-by columns.. I don't know if that's better or worse than creating a dependency, since if the constraint were dropped/changed, people might expect the rule's output to change. Of course, as you mention, the alternative would really be for the rule to just start failing.. Still, if I wanted to change the constraint, it'd be alot nicer to just be able to change it and, presuming I'm just adding a column to it or doing some other change which wouldn't invalidate the rule, not have to drop/recreate the rule. Thanks, Stephen
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