On Thu, 2023-11-30 at 19:22 +0530, Ashutosh Bapat wrote:
> May be attach the patch to hackers thread (this) as well?

If you want, sure.  I thought it was good enough if the thread
is accessible via the commitfest app.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe
From ecdce740586e33eeb394d47564b10f813896ff11 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.a...@cybertec.at>
Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2023 16:38:58 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Fix omission in partitioning limitation documentation

UNIQUE and PRIMARY KEY constraints can be created on ONLY the
partitioned table.  We already had an example demonstrating that,
but forgot to mention it in the documentation of the limits of
partitioning.

Author: Laurenz Albe
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/167299368731.659.16130012959616771...@wrigleys.postgresql.org
---
 doc/src/sgml/ddl.sgml | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ddl.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ddl.sgml
index 6e92bbddd2..b4a75f9c8f 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ddl.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ddl.sgml
@@ -4282,7 +4282,10 @@ ALTER INDEX measurement_city_id_logdate_key
         Using <literal>ONLY</literal> to add or drop a constraint on only
         the partitioned table is supported as long as there are no
         partitions.  Once partitions exist, using <literal>ONLY</literal>
-        will result in an error.  Instead, constraints on the partitions
+        will result in an error (the exception to this are
+        <literal>UNIQUE</literal> and <literal>PRIMARY KEY</literal>
+        constraints, which will be created with an invalid index, as shown in
+        the example above).  Instead, constraints on the partitions
         themselves can be added and (if they are not present in the parent
         table) dropped.
        </para>
-- 
2.39.0

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