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