Re: Should we add GUCs to allow partition pruning to be disabled?

On 20 April 2018 at 14:33, Amit Langote <Langote_Amit_f8@lab.ntt.co.jp> wrote:
> On 2018/04/20 11:18, David Rowley wrote:
>> 4. Replace test doing (constraint_exclusion ==
>> CONSTRAINT_EXCLUSION_PARTITION) with (enable_partition_pruning).
>> 5. Get rid of CONSTRAINT_EXCLUSION_PARTITION.
>
> About 4 & 5:
>
> Perhaps we should leave constraint_exclusion = partition alone because
> there might be users who want to continue using the old inheritance method
> to set up partitioning for whatever reason?

Yeah, for some reason that keeps falling out my brain.

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