Re: ALTER TABLE .. DETACH PARTITION CONCURRENTLY

On Thu, Sep 24, 2020 at 12:51:52PM +0900, Amit Langote wrote:
> Also, I noticed that looking up a parent's partitions via
> RelationBuildPartitionDesc or directly will inspect inhdetached to
> include or exclude partitions, but checking if a child table is a
> partition of a given parent table via get_partition_parent doesn't.
> Now if you fix get_partition_parent() to also take into account
> inhdetached, for example, to return InvalidOid if true, then the
> callers would need to not consider the child table a valid partition.
> So, RelationGetPartitionQual() on a detached partition should actually
> return NIL, making my earlier claim about not needing the defensive
> CHECK constraint invalid. But maybe that's fine if all places agree
> on a detached partition not being a valid partition anymore?

It would be good to get that answered, and while on it please note
that the patch needs a rebase.
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Michael