pgsql: Doc: clarify partitioned table limitations

From: David Rowley <drowley(at)postgresql(dot)org>
To: pgsql-committers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: pgsql: Doc: clarify partitioned table limitations
Date: 2022-09-05 06:43:27
Message-ID: E1oV5pO-001WCN-Sj@gemulon.postgresql.org
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Doc: clarify partitioned table limitations

Improve documentation regarding the limitations of unique and primary key
constraints on partitioned tables. The existing documentation didn't make
it clear that the constraint columns had to be present in the partition
key as bare columns. The reader could be led to believe that it was ok to
include the constraint columns as part of a function call's parameters or
as part of an expression. Additionally, the documentation didn't mention
anything about the fact that we disallow unique and primary key
constraints if the partition keys contain *any* function calls or
expressions, regardless of if the constraint columns appear as columns
elsewhere in the partition key.

The confusion here was highlighted by a report on the general mailing list
by James Vanns.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH7vdhNF0EdYZz3GLpgE3RSJLwWLhEk7A_fiKS9dPBT3Dz_3eA@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAApHDvoU-u9iTqKjteYRFfi+UNEk7dbSAcyxEQD==vZt9B1KnA@mail.gmail.com
Reviewed-by: Erik Rijkers
Backpatch-through: 11

Branch
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master

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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/519be095f2bf7150fe7a36c4f5cd0c1825126427

Modified Files
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doc/src/sgml/ddl.sgml | 13 +++++++------
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

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