Re: Declarative partitioning grammar

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Markus Schiltknecht <markus@bluegap.ch>
Cc: Jeff Cohen <jcohen@greenplum.com>, Warren Turkal <turkal@google.com>, Ron Mayer <rm_pg@cheapcomplexdevices.com>, Gavin Sherry <swm@alcove.com.au>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2008-01-15T16:38:36Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Markus Schiltknecht <markus@bluegap.ch> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> I don't agree with that at all.  I can imagine plenty of situations
>> where a tuple falling outside the range of available partitions *should*
>> be treated as an error.

> Isn't it better to have these constraints as table constraints, instead 
> of burying them in the partitioning definition? Mixing those two 
> concepts seems very wired to me.

DBAs tend to be belt *and* suspenders guys, no?  I'd think a lot of them
would want a table constraint, plus a partitioning rule that rejects
anything outside the intended partitions.

			regards, tom lane