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Re: Declarative partitioning - another take

Amit Langote <langote_amit_f8@lab.ntt.co.jp>

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From: Amit Langote <Langote_Amit_f8@lab.ntt.co.jp>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Amit Langote <amitlangote09@gmail.com>, Rajkumar Raghuwanshi <rajkumar.raghuwanshi@enterprisedb.com>, Ashutosh Bapat <ashutosh.bapat@enterprisedb.com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2016-11-02T08:32:30Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On 2016/11/02 16:41, Amit Langote wrote:
> Having said all that, I am open to switching to the catalogued partition
> constraints if the arguments I make above in favor of this patch are not
> all that sound.

One problem I didn't immediately see a solution for if we go with the
catalogued partition constraints is how do we retrieve a relation's
partition constraint?  There are a couple of cases where that becomes
necessary.  Consider that we are adding a partition to a partitioned table
that is itself partition.  In this case, the new partition's constraint
consists of whatever we generate from its FOR VALUES specification *ANDed*
with the parent's constraint.  We must somehow get hold of the latter.
Which of the parent's named check constraints in the pg_constraint catalog
is supposed to be the partition constraint?  With the uncatalogued
partition constraints approach, we simply generate it from the parent's
pg_class.relpartbound (or we might get the relcache copy of the same
stored in rd_partcheck).  Hmm.

Thanks,
Amit

Commits

  1. Fix typo.

  2. Document trigger-firing behavior for inheritance/partitioning.

  3. Fire per-statement triggers on partitioned tables.

  4. Set ecxt_scantuple correctly for tuple routing.

  5. Fix interaction of partitioned tables with BulkInsertState.

  6. Avoid core dump for empty prepared statement in an aborted transaction.

  7. Fix some problems in check_new_partition_bound().

  8. Remove unnecessary arguments from partitioning functions.

  9. Fix reporting of constraint violations for table partitioning.

  10. Fix tuple routing in cases where tuple descriptors don't match.

  11. Invalid parent's relcache after CREATE TABLE .. PARTITION OF.

  12. Doc: improve documentation about inheritance.