Re: Documentation improvements for partitioning

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Amit Langote <Langote_Amit_f8(at)lab(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp>, Corey Huinker <corey(dot)huinker(at)gmail(dot)com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Documentation improvements for partitioning
Date: 2017-02-15 14:37:34
Message-ID: 20170215143734.eb2io4k6qmktjbiy@alvherre.pgsql
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Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> On 02/15/2017 06:10 AM, Simon Riggs wrote:
> > On 13 February 2017 at 05:21, Amit Langote
> > <Langote_Amit_f8(at)lab(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp> wrote:
>
> > If I issue DROP TABLE elsewhere, it doesn't refuse to drop because it
> > has indexes, sequences etc on it. So why should it just because it has
> > partitions?
>
> Because partitions may have data.

So would the table, were it not partitioned.

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