Re: New partitioning - some feedback

On Fri, Jul 07, 2017 at 07:40:55PM +1200, Mark Kirkwood wrote:
> On 07/07/17 13:29, Amit Langote wrote:
> >Someone complained about this awhile back [1]. And then it came up again
> >[2], where Noah appeared to take a stance that partitions should be
> >visible in views / output of commands that list "tables".
> >
> >Although I too tend to prefer not filling up the \d output space by
> >listing partitions (pg_class.relispartition = true relations), there
> >wasn't perhaps enough push for creating a patch for that. If some
> >committer is willing to consider such a patch, I can make one.
>
> Yeah, me too (clearly). However if the consensus is that all these partition
> tables *must* be shown in \d output, then I'd be happy if they were
> identified as such rather than just 'table' (e.g 'partition table').

+1.

Or maybe just 'partition' is enough if 'partition table' would widen the
column output unnecessarily.

Michael

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