Re: Declarative partitioning vs. sql_inheritance

From: Amit Langote <Langote_Amit_f8(at)lab(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Dmitry Ivanov <d(dot)ivanov(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>, Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Erik Rijkers <er(at)xs4all(dot)nl>, Amit Langote <amitlangote09(at)gmail(dot)com>, Rajkumar Raghuwanshi <rajkumar(dot)raghuwanshi(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Ashutosh Bapat <ashutosh(dot)bapat(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Declarative partitioning vs. sql_inheritance
Date: 2016-12-19 05:25:56
Message-ID: 425fa56c-1087-f452-c2f5-3889be3bffaf@lab.ntt.co.jp
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On 2016/12/17 10:40, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 7:39 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
>>> On 12/16/16 11:05 AM, Robert Haas wrote:
>>>> If we were going to do anything about this,
>>>> my vote would be to remove sql_inheritance.
>>
>>> Go for it.
>>
>>> Let's also remove the table* syntax then.
>>
>> Meh --- that might break existing queries, to what purpose?
>>
>> We certainly shouldn't remove query syntax without a deprecation period.
>> I'm less concerned about that for GUCs.
>
> I agree. Patch attached, just removing the GUC and a fairly minimal
> amount of the supporting infrastructure.

+1 to removing the sql_inheritance GUC. The patch looks good to me.

Thanks,
Amit

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