Re: [POC] hash partitioning

On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 1:41 AM, Ashutosh Bapat
<ashutosh.bapat@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
>> Fixed in the attached version;  used "hash partition remainder must be
>> greater than or equal to 0" instead.
>
> I would suggest "non-zero positive", since that's what we are using in
> the documentation.

Well, that's not very good terminology, because zero is not a positive
number.  Existing error messages seem to use phrasing such as "THING
must be a positive integer" when zero is not allowed or "THING must be
a non-negative integer" when zero is allowed.  For examples, do git
grep errmsg.*positive or git grep errmsg.*negative.

> In partition_bounds_equal(), please add comments explaining why is it safe to
> check just the indexes? May be we should add code under assertion to make sure
> that the datums are equal as well. The comment could be something
> like, "If two partitioned tables have different greatest moduli, their
> partition schemes don't match. If they have same greatest moduli, and
> all remainders have different indexes, they all have same modulus
> specified and the partitions are ordered by remainders, thus indexes
> array will be an identity i.e. index[i] = i. If the partition
> corresponding to a given remainder exists, it will have same index
> entry for both partitioned tables or if it's missing it will be -1.
> Thus if indexes array matches, corresponding datums array matches. If
> there are multiple remainders corresponding to a given partition,
> their partitions are ordered by the lowest of the remainders, thus if
> indexes array matches, both of the tables have same indexes arrays, in
> both the tables remainders corresponding to multiple partitions all
> have same indexes and thus same modulus. Thus again if the indexes are
> same, datums are same.".

That seems quite long.

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