Re: Cannot convert partitioned table to a view

On 10/7/22 15:27, Kouber Saparev wrote:
> На чт, 6.10.2022 г. в 17:02 ч. Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> написа:
>
> That is an ancient backwards-compatibility hack that you should not
> rely on, and most certainly shouldn't try to make use of from user
> code.  It exists because very ancient versions of pg_dump didn't
> know how to dump views as views.  We're more likely to rip it out
> as no-longer-needed than to expand what it does.
>
>
> Does that mean that the ability to point remote partitions to views (on
> the remote side) will be forbidden in the future? Currently this feature
> is saving a lot of work (and disk-space) for us, as it allows us to
> introduce significant changes to the partitioned tables model without the
> need to populate these changes on all the hundreds of past partitions that
> do exist (and that we barely read anyway, that's why they reside on a
> remote server).

I think maybe you and Tom are talking about different things.

Why do you need rules and views, when a regular old partitioned table can
have foreign tables in it?

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