Re: Declarative partitioning - another take

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Amit Langote <Langote_Amit_f8(at)lab(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp>
Cc: Ashutosh Bapat <ashutosh(dot)bapat(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Amit Langote <amitlangote09(at)gmail(dot)com>, Rajkumar Raghuwanshi <rajkumar(dot)raghuwanshi(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Declarative partitioning - another take
Date: 2016-11-24 19:36:11
Message-ID: 20161124193611.42imqbihlack7vmh@alvherre.pgsql
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Amit Langote wrote:
> On 2016/11/24 15:10, Ashutosh Bapat wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 11:34 AM, Amit Langote wrote:

> >> You have to specify column constraints using the keywords WITH OPTIONS,
> >> like below:
> >>
> >> create table p1 partition of p (
> >> a with options primary key
> >> ) for values in (1);
> >
> > Oh, sorry for not noticing it. You are right. Why do we need "with
> > option" there? Shouldn't user be able to specify just "a primary key";
> > it's not really an "option", it's a constraint.
>
> I just adopted the existing syntax for specifying column/table constraints
> of a table created with CREATE TABLE OF type_name.

I think CREATE TABLE OF is pretty much a corner case. I agree that
allowing the constraint right after the constraint name is more
intuitive.

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Álvaro Herrera https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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