On Tue, Nov 6, 2018 at 1:54 PM Simon Riggs <si...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote: > Error in the COPY or in the DDL? COPY preferred. Somebody with insert rights > shouldn't be able to prevent a table-owner level action. People normally drop > partitions to save space, so it could be annoying if that was interrupted.
Yeah, the COPY. > Supporting parallel query shouldn't make other cases more difficult from a > behavioral perspective just to avoid the ERROR. The ERROR sounds annoying, > but not sure how annoying avoiding it would be. In my view, it's not just a question of it being annoying, but of whether anything else is even sensible. I mean, you can avoid an error when a user types SELECT 1/0 by returning NULL or 42, but that's not usually how we roll around here. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
