Re: MERGE command for inheritance

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

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>, Boxuan Zhai <bxzhai2010@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2010-08-11T15:03:13Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com> writes:
> On Wed, 2010-08-11 at 13:25 +0300, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
>> I concur that Boxuan's suggested "difficult" approach seems like the 
>> right one. 

> Right, but you've completely ignored my proposal: lets do this in two
> pieces. Get what we have now ready to commit, then add support for
> partitioning later, as a second project.

Do we really think this is anywhere near committable now?

If it's committable in every other respect, I could see just having it
throw a NOT_IMPLEMENTED error when the target table has children.
I thought we were still a very long way from that though.

			regards, tom lane