Re: Postgres Partitions Limitations (5.11.2.3)

On Mon, 2023-01-09 at 16:40 +0100, Laurenz Albe wrote:
> > "Using ONLY to add or drop a constraint on only the partitioned table is
> > supported as long as there are no partitions. Once partitions exist, using
> > ONLY will result in an error. Instead, constraints on the partitions
> > themselves can be added and (if they are not present in the parent table)
> > dropped." This seems in contradiction to the example involving adding a
> > unique constraint while minimizing locking at the bottom of "5.11.2.2.
> > Partition Maintenance", which seems to run fine on my local Pg instance:
> >
> > This technique can be used with UNIQUE and PRIMARY KEY constraints too; the
> > indexes are created implicitly when the constraint is created. Example:
>
> No, that is actually an omission in the documentation.
>
> The attached patch tries to improve that.

I am sending a reply to the hackers list, so that I can add the patch to the commitfest.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe