Re: Adding support for Default partition in partitioning

On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 5:44 PM, Ashutosh Bapat <
ashutosh(dot)bapat(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 4:24 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
> wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 5:10 AM, Rahila Syed <rahilasyed90(at)gmail(dot)com>
> wrote:
> >> Following can also be considered as it specifies more clearly that the
> >> partition holds default values.
> >>
> >> CREATE TABLE ...PARTITION OF...FOR VALUES DEFAULT;
> >
> > Yes, that could be done. But I don't think it's correct to say that
> > the partition holds default values. Let's back up and ask what the
> > word "default" means. The relevant definition (according to Google or
> > whoever they stole it from) is:
> >
> > a preselected option adopted by a computer program or other mechanism
> > when no alternative is specified by the user or programmer.
> >
> > So, a default *value* is the value that is used when no alternative is
> > specified by the user or programmer. We have that concept, but it's
> > not what we're talking about here: that's configured by applying the
> > DEFAULT property to a column. Here, we're talking about the default
> > *partition*, or in other words the *partition* that is used when no
> > alternative is specified by the user or programmer. So, that's why I
> > proposed the syntax I did. The partition doesn't contain default
> > values; it is itself a default.
>
> Is CREATE TABLE ... DEFAULT PARTITION OF ... feasible? That sounds more
> natural.
>

+1