that sounds really really useful.
i can see a ton of use cases for that.
we also toyed with the idea recently of having pluggable FSM strategies.
that one could be quite useful as well.
regards,
hans
> On 07.05.2020, at 10:11, Erik Nordström <e...@timescale.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am looking for feedback on the possibility of adding a table expansion hook
> to PostgreSQL (see attached patch). The motivation for this is to allow
> extensions to optimize table expansion. In particular, TimescaleDB does its
> own table expansion in order to apply a number of optimizations, including
> partition pruning (note that TimescaleDB uses inheritance since PostgreSQL
> 9.6 rather than declarative partitioning ). There's currently no official
> hook for table expansion, but TimescaleDB has been using the
> get_relation_info hook for this purpose. Unfortunately, PostgreSQL 12 broke
> this for us since it moved expansion to a later stage where we can no longer
> control it without some pretty bad hacks. Given that PostgreSQL 12 changed
> the expansion state of a table for the get_relation_info hook, we are
> thinking about this as a regression and are wondering if this could be
> considered against the head of PG 12 or maybe even PG 13 (although we realize
> feature freeze has been reached)?
>
> The attached patch is against PostgreSQL master (commit fb544735) and is
> about ~10 lines of code. It doesn't change any existing behavior; it only
> allows getting control of expand_inherited_rtentry, which would make a huge
> difference for TimescaleDB.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Erik
> Engineering team lead
> Timescale
>
>
> <table-expansion-hook.patch>
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