Re: Postgres Partitions Limitations (5.11.2.3)

Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>

From: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>
To: Ashutosh Bapat <ashutosh.bapat.oss@gmail.com>
Cc: navbarry@gmail.com, pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2023-12-04T20:10:05Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers, pgsql-docs

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On Fri, 2023-12-01 at 18:49 +0530, Ashutosh Bapat wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 30, 2023 at 10:29 PM Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at> wrote:
> > 
> > On Thu, 2023-11-30 at 19:22 +0530, Ashutosh Bapat wrote:
> > > May be attach the patch to hackers thread (this) as well?
> > 
> > If you want, sure.  I thought it was good enough if the thread
> > is accessible via the commitfest app.
> 
> The addition is long enough that it deserved to be outside of parentheses.
> 
> I think it's worth mentioning the exception but in a way that avoids
> repeating what's mentioned in the last paragraph of just the previous
> section. I don't have brilliant ideas about how to rephrase it.
> 
> Maybe "Using ONLY to add or drop a constraint, other than PRIMARY and
> UNIQUE, on only the partitioned table is supported as long as there
> are no partitions. ...".

I agree that the parenthesis is too long.  I shortened it in the attached
patch. Is that acceptable?

Yours,
Laurenz Albe

Commits

  1. Fix omission in partitioning limitation documentation