Re: Remove mention in docs that foreign keys on partitioned tables are not supported

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Ashutosh Bapat <ashutosh(dot)bapat(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Amit Langote <Langote_Amit_f8(at)lab(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp>, 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: 2018-06-14 13:13:22
Message-ID: CA+Tgmoae_s=wyszzMWQJ4iHONFxB_LYJMBaatGZtLGfZqWOmPQ@mail.gmail.com
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On Mon, Jun 4, 2018 at 5:40 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> I think, in general, that we should try to pick semantics that make a
>> partitioned table behave like an unpartitioned table, provided that
>> all triggers are defined on the partitioned table itself.
>
> Well, then we lose the property Alvaro wanted, namely that if an
> application chooses to insert directly into a partition, that's
> just an optimization that changes no behavior (as long as it picked
> the right partition). Maybe this can be dodged by propagating
> parent trigger definitions to the children, but it's going to be
> complicated I'm afraid.

Isn't this basically what I already proposed in
http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoYQD1xSM7=XrY6rv2a-W43gKpcTH76F3nSp5o2SGWeCkA@mail.gmail.com
?

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Robert Haas
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