Re: Documentation improvements for partitioning

On 2017/02/20 1:04, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 12:43 PM, Amit Langote wrote:
>> So I count more than a few votes saying that we should be able to DROP
>> partitioned tables without specifying CASCADE.
>>
>> I tried to implement that using the attached patch by having
>> StoreCatalogInheritance1() create DEPENDENCY_AUTO dependency between
>> parent and child if the child is a partition, instead of DEPENDENCY_NORMAL
>> that would otherwise be created. Now it seems that that is one way of
>> making sure that partitions are dropped when the root partitioned table is
>> dropped, not sure if the best; why create the pg_depend entries at all one
>> might ask. I chose it for now because that's the one with fewest lines of
>> change. Adjusted regression tests as well, since we recently tweaked
>> tests [1] to work around the irregularities of test output when using CASCADE.
>
> Could you possibly post this on a new thread with a reference back to
> this one? The number of patches on this one is getting a bit hard to
> track, and some people may be under the misimpression that this one is
> just about documentation.

Sorry about that. Sent the above message and the patch in a new thread
titled "dropping partitioned tables without CASCADE" [1].

Thanks,
Amit

[1] https://postgr.es/m/6c420206-45d7-3f56-8325-4bd7b76483ba%40lab.ntt.co.jp