Re: ATTACH PARTITION locking documentation for DEFAULT partitions

On Tue, 13 Jul 2021 at 00:14, Matthias van de Meent
<boekewurm+postgres(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Sorry for the delay. I think that covers the basics of what I was
> missing in these docs, and although it does not cover the recursive
> 'if the check is implied by constraints don't lock this partition',
> I'd say that your suggested patch is good enough. Thanks for looking
> over this.

Isn't that covered the following?

+ <para>
+ Further locks must also be held on all sub-partitions if the table being
+ attached is itself a partitioned table. Likewise if the default
+ partition is itself a partitioned table. The locking of the
+ sub-partitions can be avoided by adding a <literal>CHECK</literal>
+ constraint as described in
+ <xref linkend="ddl-partitioning-declarative-maintenance"/>.
</para>

David