On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 5:01 PM, Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@alvh.no-ip.org> wrote: > Tangentially: I didn't like very much that I added a new index to > pg_index to support this feature. I thought maybe it'd be better to > change the index on indrelid to be on (indrelid,indparentidx) instead, > but that doesn't seem great either because it bloats that index which is > used to support common relcache operations ... > > (The more I think of this, the more I believe that pg_inherits is a > better answer. Opinions?)
I actually haven't looked at the code, but the idea that pg_inherits is on the way out is news to me. If that method will work, I don't quite see why we should invent something new. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company