Re: Remove mention in docs that foreign keys on partitioned tables are not supported

On Tue, Jul 3, 2018 at 12:41 AM Ashutosh Bapat <
ashutosh(dot)bapat(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:

> > rhaas=# drop table foo;
> > ERROR: table "foo" does not exist
> > HINT: Try dropping a table with a different name that does exist, or
> > first create this table before trying to drop it.
>
> Again a wrong example and wrong comparison. I think I was clear about
> the problem when I wrote

I don't think this is a question of "right" vs. "wrong". You are certainly
entitled to your opinion, but I believe that I am entitled to mine, too.

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> When there was only a single way, i.e table
> inheritance, to "inherit" things users could probably guess that. But
> now there are multiple ways to inherit things, we have to help user a
> bit more. The user might figure out that ti's a partition of a table,
> so the constraint is inherited from the partitioned table. But it will
> help if we give a hint about from where the constraint was inherited
> like the error message itself reads like "can not drop constraint
> "p_a_check" on relation "p1" inherited from "partitioned table's name"
> OR a hint "you may drop constraint "p_a_check" on the partitioned
> table "partitioned table's name".
> --
>
> For some reason you have chosen to remove this from the email and
> commented on previous part of it.

Well, as far as I know, it's up to me which parts of your emails I want to
quote in my reply. I did read this part. It did not change my opinion. My
fundamental objection to your proposal is that I think it is too wordy. I
think users will generally know whether they are using partitioning or
inheritance, and if they don't it's not hard to figure out. I don't think
quoting only part of what you wrote made the quote misleading, but it did
allow me to express my opinion. I understand that you don't agree, which is
fine, but I stand by my position.

...Robert
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Robert Haas
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