| From: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Amit Langote <Langote_Amit_f8(at)lab(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp> |
| Cc: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Robert Treat <rob(at)xzilla(dot)net>, Ashutosh Bapat <ashutosh(dot)bapat(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, David Rowley <david(dot)rowley(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Remove mention in docs that foreign keys on partitioned tables are not supported |
| Date: | 2018-06-29 12:30:13 |
| Message-ID: | CA+TgmoaVP1QeWYCcg4iUCc04v6CzXxkv4qn_mqd2cPWxJ1Phmw@mail.gmail.com |
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On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 10:26 PM, Amit Langote
<Langote_Amit_f8(at)lab(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp> wrote:
> By the way, picking up on the word "inherited" in the error message shown
> above, I wonder if you decided against using similar terminology
> intentionally.
Good question.
> I guess the thinking there is that the terminology being
> used extensively with columns and constraints ("inherited column/check
> constraint cannot be dropped", etc.) is just a legacy of partitioning
> sharing implementation with inheritance.
It seems to me that we can talk about things being inherited by
partitions even if we're calling the feature partitioning, rather than
inheritance. Maybe that's confusing, but then again, maybe it's not
that confusing.
--
Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
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