Preserve clustered index after rewrites with ALTER TABLE

A table rewritten by ALTER TABLE would lose tracking of an index usable
for CLUSTER.  This setting is tracked by pg_index.indisclustered and is
controlled by ALTER TABLE, so some extra work was needed to restore it
properly.  Note that ALTER TABLE only marks the index that can be used
for clustering, and does not do the actual operation.

Author: Amit Langote, Justin Pryzby
Reviewed-by: Ibrar Ahmed, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200202161718.GI13621@telsasoft.com
Backpatch-through: 9.5

2 files changed, 73 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/alter_table.out b/src/test/regress/expected/alter_table.out
index 075637ce56d..46402b4a6d3 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/alter_table.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/alter_table.out
@@ -3109,3 +3109,51 @@ ALTER TABLE logged1 SET UNLOGGED; -- silently do nothing
 DROP TABLE logged3;
 DROP TABLE logged2;
 DROP TABLE logged1;
+-- Test that ALTER TABLE rewrite preserves a clustered index
+-- for normal indexes and indexes on constraints.
+create table alttype_cluster (a int);
+alter table alttype_cluster add primary key (a);
+create index alttype_cluster_ind on alttype_cluster (a);
+alter table alttype_cluster cluster on alttype_cluster_ind;
+-- Normal index remains clustered.
+select indexrelid::regclass, indisclustered from pg_index
+  where indrelid = 'alttype_cluster'::regclass
+  order by indexrelid::regclass::text;
+      indexrelid      | indisclustered 
+----------------------+----------------
+ alttype_cluster_ind  | t
+ alttype_cluster_pkey | f
+(2 rows)
+
+alter table alttype_cluster alter a type bigint;
+select indexrelid::regclass, indisclustered from pg_index
+  where indrelid = 'alttype_cluster'::regclass
+  order by indexrelid::regclass::text;
+      indexrelid      | indisclustered 
+----------------------+----------------
+ alttype_cluster_ind  | t
+ alttype_cluster_pkey | f
+(2 rows)
+
+-- Constraint index remains clustered.
+alter table alttype_cluster cluster on alttype_cluster_pkey;
+select indexrelid::regclass, indisclustered from pg_index
+  where indrelid = 'alttype_cluster'::regclass
+  order by indexrelid::regclass::text;
+      indexrelid      | indisclustered 
+----------------------+----------------
+ alttype_cluster_ind  | f
+ alttype_cluster_pkey | t
+(2 rows)
+
+alter table alttype_cluster alter a type int;
+select indexrelid::regclass, indisclustered from pg_index
+  where indrelid = 'alttype_cluster'::regclass
+  order by indexrelid::regclass::text;
+      indexrelid      | indisclustered 
+----------------------+----------------
+ alttype_cluster_ind  | f
+ alttype_cluster_pkey | t
+(2 rows)
+
+drop table alttype_cluster;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/alter_table.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/alter_table.sql
index 5f06a768545..421d4c7d312 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/alter_table.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/alter_table.sql
@@ -1932,3 +1932,28 @@ ALTER TABLE logged1 SET UNLOGGED; -- silently do nothing
 DROP TABLE logged3;
 DROP TABLE logged2;
 DROP TABLE logged1;
+
+-- Test that ALTER TABLE rewrite preserves a clustered index
+-- for normal indexes and indexes on constraints.
+create table alttype_cluster (a int);
+alter table alttype_cluster add primary key (a);
+create index alttype_cluster_ind on alttype_cluster (a);
+alter table alttype_cluster cluster on alttype_cluster_ind;
+-- Normal index remains clustered.
+select indexrelid::regclass, indisclustered from pg_index
+  where indrelid = 'alttype_cluster'::regclass
+  order by indexrelid::regclass::text;
+alter table alttype_cluster alter a type bigint;
+select indexrelid::regclass, indisclustered from pg_index
+  where indrelid = 'alttype_cluster'::regclass
+  order by indexrelid::regclass::text;
+-- Constraint index remains clustered.
+alter table alttype_cluster cluster on alttype_cluster_pkey;
+select indexrelid::regclass, indisclustered from pg_index
+  where indrelid = 'alttype_cluster'::regclass
+  order by indexrelid::regclass::text;
+alter table alttype_cluster alter a type int;
+select indexrelid::regclass, indisclustered from pg_index
+  where indrelid = 'alttype_cluster'::regclass
+  order by indexrelid::regclass::text;
+drop table alttype_cluster;