On Monday, January 12, 2026, Chao Li <li(dot)evan(dot)chao(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> For now, I’ve limited the change to REPLICA IDENTITY to see whether there
> are objections to this approach. If there are none, I plan to extend the
> same warning behavior to the other sub-commands listed above. After that,
> users can reasonably assume that an ALTER TABLE partitioned_table
> ... action will recurse to child partitions unless a warning explicitly
> tells them otherwise.
>
It should be a notice, not a warning.
How about indicating how many partitions were affected in the notice and
allowing the absence of such a notice to be the indicator that cascading
did not happen?
David J.