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.

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