shallow should check (and remove) secondary key attributes.

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Issue type
Bug
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Activity status
Stale
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r
Domain
data

Research direction

Start by running the R reproduction with data.table's shallow() and indices() calls, then inspect the implementation and secondary-key attribute handling. Done means shallow() no longer retains stale secondary key attributes, as confirmed by the indices(d) result.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

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internals

shallow() is still internal, and hasn't been used along with secondary keys yet. So it doesn't break anything. Hence setting this to 1.9.8.

DT = as.data.table(iris)
setindex(DT, Species)
indices(DT)
#[1] "Species"
d = shallow(DT)
indices(d)
#[1] "Species"
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