Re: Foreign keys and partitioned tables

On 3/29/18 23:19, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> 0003 is the matter of interest. This is essentially the same code I
> posted earlier, rebased to the committed row triggers patch, with a few
> minor bug fixes and some changes in the regression tests to try and make
> them more comprehensive, including leaving a partitioned table with an
> FK to test that the whole pg_dump thing works via the pg_upgrade test.

I've only read the tests so far. The functionality appears to work
correctly. It's a bit strange how the tests are split up between
alter_table.sql and foreign_key.sql, especially since the latter also
contains ALTER TABLE checks and vice versa.

Some tests are a bit redundant, e.g., this in alter_table.sql:

+-- these fail:
+INSERT INTO at_partitioned VALUES (1000, 42);
+ERROR: insert or update on table "at_partitioned_0" violates foreign
key constraint "at_partitioned_reg1_col1_fkey"
+DETAIL: Key (reg1_col1)=(42) is not present in table "at_regular1".

and

+INSERT INTO at_partitioned VALUES (5000, 42);
+ERROR: insert or update on table "at_partitioned_0" violates foreign
key constraint "at_partitioned_reg1_col1_fkey"
+DETAIL: Key (reg1_col1)=(42) is not present in table "at_regular1".

There are no documentation changes. The foreign key section in CREATE
TABLE does not contain anything about partitioned tables, which is
probably an existing omission, but it might be good to fix this up now.

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