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Re: Declarative partitioning - another take

Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>

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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Ashutosh Bapat <ashutosh.bapat@enterprisedb.com>, Amit Langote <Langote_Amit_f8@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Amit Langote <amitlangote09@gmail.com>, Dmitry Ivanov <d.ivanov@postgrespro.ru>, Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Erik Rijkers <er@xs4all.nl>, Rajkumar Raghuwanshi <rajkumar.raghuwanshi@enterprisedb.com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org
Date: 2017-01-30T21:42:10Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On 1/25/17 12:54 AM, Ashutosh Bapat wrote:
> The documentation available at
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/static/sql-createtable.html,
> does not make it clear that the lower bound of a range partition is
> always inclusive and the higher one is exclusive. I think a note in
> section " PARTITION OF parent_table FOR VALUES partition_bound_spec"
> would be helpful.

Hmm.  I see the practical use of that, but I think this is going to be a
source of endless confusion.  Can we make that a bit clearer in the
syntax, for example by using additional keywords (INCLUSIVE/EXCLUSIVE)?

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Peter Eisentraut              http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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Commits

  1. Fix typo.

  2. Document trigger-firing behavior for inheritance/partitioning.

  3. Fire per-statement triggers on partitioned tables.

  4. Set ecxt_scantuple correctly for tuple routing.

  5. Fix interaction of partitioned tables with BulkInsertState.

  6. Avoid core dump for empty prepared statement in an aborted transaction.

  7. Fix some problems in check_new_partition_bound().

  8. Remove unnecessary arguments from partitioning functions.

  9. Fix reporting of constraint violations for table partitioning.

  10. Fix tuple routing in cases where tuple descriptors don't match.

  11. Invalid parent's relcache after CREATE TABLE .. PARTITION OF.

  12. Doc: improve documentation about inheritance.