Re: [Bizgres-general] A Guide to Constraint Exclusion
Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>
From: Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>
To: hannu@skype.net
Cc: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>, bizgres-general@pgfoundry.org, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2005-07-14T19:30:11Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Hannu Krosing <hannu@tm.ee> writes: > > It is not yet possible to specify that an inheritance parent has no > > rows, and, if so, should always be excluded from the query. > > I think that a simple "CHECK(false)" constraint should be enough for > this. huh, that's clever. > > CE checks are not made when the parent table is involved in a join. > > Is this also the case where parent table is inside subquery and that > subquery is involved in a join? I assume this is a TODO and just not in your first batch of work? It seems like a pretty important piece eventually. Are there any fundamental difficulties with handling joins eventually? -- greg