Re: ATTACH/DETACH PARTITION CONCURRENTLY

On Tue, 6 Nov 2018 at 10:56, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 6, 2018 at 1:54 PM Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> > Error in the COPY or in the DDL? COPY preferred. Somebody with insert
> rights shouldn't be able to prevent a table-owner level action. People
> normally drop partitions to save space, so it could be annoying if that was
> interrupted.
>
> Yeah, the COPY.
>
> > Supporting parallel query shouldn't make other cases more difficult from
> a behavioral perspective just to avoid the ERROR. The ERROR sounds
> annoying, but not sure how annoying avoiding it would be.
>
> In my view, it's not just a question of it being annoying, but of
> whether anything else is even sensible.  I mean, you can avoid an
> error when a user types SELECT 1/0 by returning NULL or 42, but that's
> not usually how we roll around here.
>

If you can remove the ERROR without any other adverse effects, that sounds
great.

Please let us know what, if any, adverse effects would be caused so we can
discuss. Thanks

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