On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 7:05 AM, Albe Laurenz <laurenz.a...@wien.gv.at> wrote:
> Not that it is a useful use case, but I believe that this is
> a bug that causes index corruption:
>
> CREATE TABLE mytable(
>    id integer PRIMARY KEY,
>    id2 integer NOT NULL
> );
>
> CREATE FUNCTION makeindex() RETURNS trigger
>    LANGUAGE plpgsql AS
> $$BEGIN
>    CREATE INDEX ON mytable(id2);
>    RETURN NEW;
> END;$$;

I'm willing to bet that nobody ever thought about that case very hard.
It seems like we should either make it work or prohibit it, but I
can't actually see quite how to do either off-hand.

-- 
Robert Haas
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