Re: Check constraints on partition parents only?

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Nikhil Sontakke <nikkhils(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Nikhil Sontakke <nikhil(dot)sontakke(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Alex Hunsaker <badalex(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Jerry Sievers <gsievers19(at)comcast(dot)net>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Check constraints on partition parents only?
Date: 2011-07-29 19:32:10
Message-ID: 1311967863-sup-4173@alvh.no-ip.org
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Excerpts from Nikhil Sontakke's message of vie jul 29 14:12:37 -0400 2011:
> Hi all,
>
> PFA, patch which implements non-inheritable "ONLY" constraints. This
> has been achieved by introducing a new column "conisonly" in
> pg_constraint catalog. Specification of 'ONLY' in the ALTER TABLE ADD
> CONSTRAINT CHECK command is used to set this new column to true.
> Constraints which have this column set to true cannot be inherited by
> present and future children ever.
>
> The psql and pg_dump binaries have been modified to account for such
> persistent non-inheritable check constraints. This patch also has
> documentation changes along with relevant changes to the test cases.
> The regression runs pass fine with this patch applied.
>
> Comments and further feedback, if any, appreciated.

Did you look at how this conflicts with my patch to add not null
rows to pg_constraint?

https://commitfest.postgresql.org/action/patch_view?id=601

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