Re: Declarative partitioning vs. sql_inheritance

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(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>, Amit Langote <amitlangote09(at)gmail(dot)com>, Amit Langote <Langote_Amit_f8(at)lab(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp>, Rajkumar Raghuwanshi <rajkumar(dot)raghuwanshi(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, 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. sql_inheritance
Date: 2016-12-17 01:40:50
Message-ID: CA+Tgmob8Avi59hOb7-hi64urH9Z1kcn54F7uQvxzG-CnHbm+ZQ@mail.gmail.com
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On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 7:39 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
>> On 12/16/16 11:05 AM, Robert Haas wrote:
>>> If we were going to do anything about this,
>>> my vote would be to remove sql_inheritance.
>
>> Go for it.
>
>> Let's also remove the table* syntax then.
>
> Meh --- that might break existing queries, to what purpose?
>
> We certainly shouldn't remove query syntax without a deprecation period.
> I'm less concerned about that for GUCs.

I agree. Patch attached, just removing the GUC and a fairly minimal
amount of the supporting infrastructure.

--
Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company

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