Re: ALTER TABLE .. DETACH PARTITION CONCURRENTLY

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
To: Amit Langote <amitlangote09@gmail.com>
Cc: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2021-04-27T16:32:26Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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This v3 handles things as you suggested and works correctly AFAICT.  I'm
going to add some more tests cases to verify the behavior in the
scenarios you showed, and get them to run under cache-clobber options to
make sure it's good.

Thanks!

-- 
Álvaro Herrera       Valdivia, Chile

Commits

  1. Make detach-partition-concurrently-4 less timing sensitive

  2. Improve documentation on DETACH PARTITION lock levels

  3. Track detached partitions more accurately in partdescs

  4. Allow a partdesc-omitting-partitions to be cached

  5. Fix relcache inconsistency hazard in partition detach

  6. Don't add a redundant constraint when detaching a partition

  7. ALTER TABLE ... DETACH PARTITION ... CONCURRENTLY

  8. Let ALTER TABLE Phase 2 routines manage the relation pointer

  9. Check default partitions constraints while descending