Re: transition table behavior with inheritance appears broken (was: Declarative partitioning - another take)

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Amit Langote <Langote_Amit_f8(at)lab(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp>, David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, Rajkumar Raghuwanshi <rajkumar(dot)raghuwanshi(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Amit Langote <amitlangote09(at)gmail(dot)com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org, Kevin Grittner <kgrittn(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: transition table behavior with inheritance appears broken (was: Declarative partitioning - another take)
Date: 2017-05-10 03:55:59
Message-ID: CA+TgmoZo4tZyShpz=geYma51yN5K=MNkhrrO69aJVVYbA2NdUg@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 11:48 PM, Thomas Munro
<thomas(dot)munro(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
> Hmm. DB2 has transition tables (invented them maybe?) and it allows
> OLD/NEW TABLE on row-level triggers:
>
> https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSEPGG_10.1.0/com.ibm.db2.luw.admin.dbobj.doc/doc/t0020236.html

Yeah, my impression is that Kevin was pretty keen on supporting that
case. I couldn't say exactly why, though.

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Robert Haas
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