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Re: Declarative partitioning - another take

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>

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From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Amit Langote <Langote_Amit_f8@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: Ashutosh Bapat <ashutosh.bapat@enterprisedb.com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Amit Langote <amitlangote09@gmail.com>, Rajkumar Raghuwanshi <rajkumar.raghuwanshi@enterprisedb.com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2016-11-24T19:36:11Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Amit Langote wrote:
> On 2016/11/24 15:10, Ashutosh Bapat wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 11:34 AM, Amit Langote wrote:

> >> You have to specify column constraints using the keywords WITH OPTIONS,
> >> like below:
> >>
> >> create table p1 partition of p (
> >>     a with options primary key
> >> ) for values in (1);
> > 
> > Oh, sorry for not noticing it. You are right. Why do we need "with
> > option" there? Shouldn't user be able to specify just "a primary key";
> > it's not really an "option", it's a constraint.
> 
> I just adopted the existing syntax for specifying column/table constraints
> of a table created with CREATE TABLE OF type_name.

I think CREATE TABLE OF is pretty much a corner case.  I agree that
allowing the constraint right after the constraint name is more
intuitive.

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Commits

  1. Fix typo.

  2. Document trigger-firing behavior for inheritance/partitioning.

  3. Fire per-statement triggers on partitioned tables.

  4. Set ecxt_scantuple correctly for tuple routing.

  5. Fix interaction of partitioned tables with BulkInsertState.

  6. Avoid core dump for empty prepared statement in an aborted transaction.

  7. Fix some problems in check_new_partition_bound().

  8. Remove unnecessary arguments from partitioning functions.

  9. Fix reporting of constraint violations for table partitioning.

  10. Fix tuple routing in cases where tuple descriptors don't match.

  11. Invalid parent's relcache after CREATE TABLE .. PARTITION OF.

  12. Doc: improve documentation about inheritance.