| From: | Rob Sargent <robjsargent(at)gmail(dot)com> |
|---|---|
| To: | Adam Brusselback <adambrusselback(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: looking for a globally unique row ID |
| Date: | 2017-09-15 18:49:35 |
| Message-ID: | 2b934341-b546-a4d3-2316-0cd6ed1a6812@gmail.com |
| Views: | Raw Message | Whole Thread | Download mbox | Resend email |
| Thread: | |
| Lists: | pgsql-general |
On 09/15/2017 12:45 PM, Adam Brusselback wrote:
>
> I cannot image a single postgres index covering more than one
> physical table. Are you really asking for that?
>
>
> While not available yet, that is a feature that has had discussion
> before. Global indexes are what i've seen it called in those
> discussions. One of the main use cases is to provide uniqueness
> across multiple tables, which would also allow things like foreign
> keys on partitioned tables.
I had a sneaking suspicion that partitioning would be the use-case, but
clearly there's at least the 'notion' of a single entity
| From | Date | Subject | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Next Message | Christopher Browne | 2017-09-15 19:30:28 | Re: looking for a globally unique row ID |
| Previous Message | Adam Brusselback | 2017-09-15 18:45:00 | Re: looking for a globally unique row ID |