On 2017-01-31 17:21:28 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> writes: > > Hm, sorry for missing this earlier. I think CatalogUpdateIndexes() is > > fairly widely used in extensions - it seems like a pretty harsh change > > to not leave some backward compatibility layer in place. > > If an extension is doing that, it is probably constructing tuples to put > into the catalog, which means it'd be equally (and much more quietly) > broken by any change to the catalog's schema. We've never considered > such an argument as a reason not to change catalog schemas, though.
I know of several extensions that use CatalogUpdateIndexes() to update their own tables. Citus included (It's trivial to change on our side, so that's not a reason to do or not do something). There really is no convenient API to do so without it. > (I'm a little more concerned by Alvaro's apparent position that WARM > is a done deal; I didn't think so. This particular change seems like > good cleanup anyhow, however.) Yea, I don't think we're even close to that either. Andres -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers