Re: partitioned tables referenced by FKs

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>

To: Amit Langote <Langote_Amit_f8@lab.ntt.co.jp>

Cc: Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>

Date: 2019-03-19T11:49:20Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

On 2019-Mar-19, Amit Langote wrote:

> Will it suffice or be OK if we skipped invoking the pre-drop callback for
> objects that are being "indirectly" dropped?  I came up with the attached
> patch to resolve this problem, if that idea has any merit.  We also get
> slightly better error message as seen the expected/foreign_key.out changes.

I don't think this works ... consider putting some partition in a
different schema and then doing DROP SCHEMA CASCADE.

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Commits

Support foreign keys that reference partitioned tables
- f56f8f8da6af 12.0 landed
Fix partitioned index creation bug with dropped columns
- 7009f1a2df65 11.3 landed
- 126d63122232 12.0 landed
Improve psql's \d display of foreign key constraints
- 1af25ca0c2d9 12.0 cited
Fix dependency recording bug for partitioned PKs
- 7e7c57bbb2eb 12.0 landed
Add index_get_partition convenience function
- a6da0047158b 12.0 landed
Restore RI trigger sanity check
- 815b20ae0c6e 12.0 landed
- 04f9b449aa30 11.3 landed
Foreign keys on partitioned tables
- 3de241dba86f 11.0 cited