Re: Detaching multiple partitions in 1 ALTER TABLE statement

On 6/20/19 9:00 AM, Simon Riggs wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Jun 2019 at 15:19, Ben Hood <ben(at)relops(dot)com
> <mailto:ben(at)relops(dot)com>> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I’m wondering what is the syntax for detaching multiple partitions
> in 1 ALTER TABLE statement.
>
> I’ve tried this:
>
>
> # ALTER TABLE movement_legs DETACH PARTITION
> movement_legs_2019_06_20_11_15, DETACH PARTITION
> movement_legs_2019_06_20_11_20;
> psql: ERROR:  syntax error at or near ","
> LINE 1: ...gs DETACH PARTITION movement_legs_2019_06_20_11_15, DETACH P…
>
>
> The documentation suggests "DETACH PARTITION can be combined into a
> list of multiple alterations to be applied together”:
>
>
> Docs say this" All the forms of ALTER TABLE that act on a single table,
> except RENAME , SET SCHEMA , ATTACH
> PARTITION , and DETACH PARTITION  can be combined into a list of
> multiple alterations to be
> applied together."
>

> Perhaps a comma would be helpful, but its clear that you can do multiple
^not
Or I am thoroughly confused:)

> detaches in one command at present.
>
> But it sounds like a great feature.
>
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