Re: New partitioning - some feedback

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Amit Langote <Langote_Amit_f8(at)lab(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp>
Cc: Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, Mark Kirkwood <mark(dot)kirkwood(at)catalyst(dot)net(dot)nz>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: New partitioning - some feedback
Date: 2017-07-10 22:33:34
Message-ID: CA+Tgmoa2pU8xdqvemjCbSCxM2a4Dqw8cTKsRVaf-FW4kKJ0k5A@mail.gmail.com
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On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 2:15 AM, Amit Langote
<Langote_Amit_f8(at)lab(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp> wrote:
> I posted a patch upthread which makes \d hide partitions (relispartition =
> true relations) and include them if the newly proposed '!' modifier is
> specified. The '+' modifier is being used to show additional detail of
> relations chosen to be listed at all, so it seemed like a bad idea to
> extend its meaning to also dictate whether partitions are to be listed.

+1. That'd be a mess.

> Actually, if \d had shown RELKIND_PARTITIONED_TABLE tables as of Type
> "partitioned table", we wouldn't need a separate flag for marking a table
> as having partitions.

I think that is false. Whether something is partitioned and whether
it is a partition are independent concerns.

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Robert Haas
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