On Thu, Nov 07, 2019 at 01:15:30PM +1300, David Rowley wrote: > On Thu, 7 Nov 2019 at 11:59, Justin Pryzby <pry...@telsasoft.com> wrote: > > > > On Mon, Nov 04, 2019 at 03:04:45AM +0000, David Wheeler wrote: > > > Postgres version 9.5.19 > > > Each of the tables has between 3-4 indexes, and all the indexes include > > > tid as first parameter. > > > But note that index definition will be prohibited since: > > > > https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.6/release-9-6.html > > |Disallow creation of indexes on system columns, except for OID columns > > (David Rowley) > > |Such indexes were never considered supported, and would very possibly > > misbehave since the system might change the system-column fields of a tuple > > without updating indexes. However, previously there were no error checks to > > prevent them from being created. > > David will have meant the user column named "tid" rather than the > system column named "ctid".
Ah. And David must have meant David W :) Justin
