Re: no default hash partition

On Thu, Aug 8, 2019 at 6:22 AM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> > On 2019-Aug-07, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> Hm, that's rather confusingly worded IMO. Is the antecedent of "this
> >> option" just DEFAULT, or does it mean that you can't use FOR VALUES,
> >> or perchance it means that you can't use a PARTITION OF clause
> >> at all?
>
> > Uh, you're right, I hadn't noticed that. Not my text. I think this can
> > be fixed easily as in the attached. There are other options, but I like
> > this one the best.
>
> OK, but maybe also s/created as a default partition/created as the default
> partition/ ? Writing "a" carries the pretty clear implication that there
> can be more than one, and contradicting that a sentence later doesn't
> improve it.

+1. Maybe also remove the last sentence of the 2nd paragraph, that
is, this one:

There can be only one default partition for a given parent table.

Regards,
Amit