Re: Check constraints on partition parents only?

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Nikhil Sontakke <nikkhils(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Alex Hunsaker <badalex(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, 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 13:37:01
Message-ID: 23800.1311946621@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Nikhil Sontakke <nikkhils(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> (Also, don't forget you need to hack pg_dump, too.)

> Yeah, I have already hacked it a bit. This constraint now needs to be
> spit out later as an ALTER command with ONLY attached to it
> appropriately. Earlier all CHECK constraints were generally emitted as
> part of the table definition itself.

IIRC, there's already support for splitting out a constraint that way,
in order to deal with circular dependencies. You just need to treat
this as an additional reason for splitting.

regards, tom lane

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