Re: BUG #15587: Partitions with ALTER TABLE ADD CONSTRAINT

From: Jesper Pedersen <jesper(dot)pedersen(at)redhat(dot)com>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, pgsql-bugs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: BUG #15587: Partitions with ALTER TABLE ADD CONSTRAINT
Date: 2019-01-10 17:43:11
Message-ID: 3e406e7f-b3df-7f9d-fcf3-1201f3c87903@redhat.com
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Hi,

On 1/10/19 12:11 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> On 2019-Jan-10, PG Bug reporting form wrote:
>> Removing ONLY from the ALTER command makes the index correct.
>
> I'm not clear what problem you're reporting. If you use ONLY, then the
> command doesn't cascade to create the index on partitions, and the index
> is marked invalid. If you add the constraint to each partition and
> ALTER INDEX ATTACH PARTITION, the index on t1 should become valid when
> every partition of the table has its index.
>

However, when you use ADD CONSTRAINT FOREIGN KEY you can't use ONLY, so
would it be a good idea to make ADD CONSTRAINT UNIQUE behave the same
way, i.e. error out ?

Best regards,
Jesper

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