Re: Postgres Partitions Limitations (5.11.2.3)

On Fri, Oct 27, 2023 at 12:28 PM Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2023-01-09 at 16:40 +0100, Laurenz Albe wrote:
> > > "Using ONLY to add or drop a constraint on only the partitioned table is
> > > supported as long as there are no partitions. Once partitions exist, using
> > > ONLY will result in an error. Instead, constraints on the partitions
> > > themselves can be added and (if they are not present in the parent table)
> > > dropped." This seems in contradiction to the example involving adding a
> > > unique constraint while minimizing locking at the bottom of "5.11.2.2.
> > > Partition Maintenance", which seems to run fine on my local Pg instance:
> > >
> > > This technique can be used with UNIQUE and PRIMARY KEY constraints too; the
> > > indexes are created implicitly when the constraint is created. Example:
> >
> > No, that is actually an omission in the documentation.
> >
> > The attached patch tries to improve that.
>
> I am sending a reply to the hackers list, so that I can add the patch to the commitfest.

May be attach the patch to hackers thread (this) as well?

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Ashutosh Bapat