Re: Declarative partitioning vs. information_schema

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Amit Langote <Langote_Amit_f8(at)lab(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp>
Cc: Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Keith Fiske <keith(at)omniti(dot)com>, amul sul <sulamul(at)gmail(dot)com>, 高增琦 <pgf00a(at)gmail(dot)com>, Rajkumar Raghuwanshi <rajkumar(dot)raghuwanshi(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Amit Langote <amitlangote09(at)gmail(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>, 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. information_schema
Date: 2017-04-13 20:28:01
Message-ID: CA+TgmoZKQwuHVEPd3Nxhp8PGtg78hfEZXYwgM1-tUu9P6qYCPg@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 3:14 AM, Amit Langote
<Langote_Amit_f8(at)lab(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp> wrote:
>> The bulk of operations that work on traditional tables also work on partitions
>> and partitioned tables. The next closest kind of relation, a materialized
>> view, is far less table-like. Therefore, I recommend showing both partitions
>> and partitioned tables in those views. This is also consistent with the
>> decision to use words like "partition" and "partitioned" in messages only when
>> partitioning is relevant to the error. For example, ATWrongRelkindError()
>> distinguishes materialized views from tables, but it does not distinguish
>> tables based on their participation in partitioning.
>
> +1

OK, whoever wants to write the patch, please step forward.

/me steps backward.

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Robert Haas
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