Re: BUG #15724: Can't create foreign table as partition

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
To: stepya@ukr.net, pgsql-bugs@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2019-03-29T13:55:19Z
Lists: pgsql-bugs

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On 2019-Mar-29, PG Bug reporting form wrote:

> CREATE FOREIGN TABLE staging.msg_json PARTITION of msg_json  
>     FOR VALUES FROM (20170101) TO (20180101)
>     SERVER postgres_big_data_arch
>     OPTIONS (schema_name 'fix_capture', table_name 'msg_json');
> 
> 
> I got error !!!!
> 
> SQL Error [42809]: ERROR: cannot create index on foreign table "msg_json"
>   ERROR: cannot create index on foreign table "msg_json"
>   ERROR: cannot create index on foreign table "msg_json"

Ah, this is because we try to propagate the index to the partition,
which appears to be less than desirable.  Maybe this patch fixes it?  I
have not tested it, only verified that it compiles.

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Commits

  1. Fix partitioned index creation with foreign partitions

  2. Doc: Update documentation on partitioning vs. foreign tables.