Re: UPSERT on partition

From: Jim Nasby <Jim(dot)Nasby(at)BlueTreble(dot)com>
To: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)heroku(dot)com>, Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: UPSERT on partition
Date: 2015-06-26 22:35:10
Message-ID: 558DD39E.9020807@BlueTreble.com
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On 6/24/15 1:03 PM, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 11:02 AM, Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)heroku(dot)com> wrote:
>> I think that the real way to fix this is, as you say, to make it so
>> that it isn't necessary in general to write trigger functions like
>> this to make inheritance work.
>
> Excuse me -- I mean to make *partitioning* work.

It occurs to me that we could run the BEFORE triggers and then pass the
new tuple to a user-supplied function that returns a regclass. That
would allow us to know exactly which child/partition the UPSERT should
be attempted in.
--
Jim Nasby, Data Architect, Blue Treble Consulting, Austin TX
Data in Trouble? Get it in Treble! http://BlueTreble.com

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