Re: BUG #15437: Segfault during insert into declarative partitioned table with a trigger creating partition

On 2018/10/29 11:44, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 12:38:09PM +0300, Dmitry Shalashov wrote:
>> That may be off-topic here, but I feel that *some* way of auto-creating
>> partitions would be useful though. Maybe all partitioning setup could
>> boil down to one table declaration, with auto-created partitions of
>> the same structure, including indices and stuff.
>
> Some patches have been proposed for this purpose during v11 development
> timeline if I recall correctly, but they did not cross the finish line.

Hmm, I don't recall any, but maybe I missed some thread.

> You could also look at something like pg_partman:
> https://github.com/pgpartman/pg_partman

I haven't looked at how pg_partman does it, but I suspect it's not doing
it inside a trigger or we would've heard of this crash from pg_partman's
developers. :) I don't hear you saying it does, but just thought I'd
mention it.

Thanks,
Amit