On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 09:35:05AM +0900, Kyotaro HORIGUCHI wrote: > Hi, > > Before suppressing the symptom, I doubt the necessity and/or > validity of giving foreign tables an ability to be a parent. Is > there any reasonable usage for the ability? > > I think we should choose to inhibit foreign tables from becoming > a parent rather than leaving it allowed then taking measures for > the consequent symptom.
I have a use case for having foreign tables as non-leaf nodes in a partitioning hierarchy, namely geographic. One might have a table at HQ called foo_world, then partitions under it called foo_jp, foo_us, etc., in one level, foo_us_ca, foo_us_pa, etc. in the next level, and on down, each in general in a separate data center. Is there something essential about having non-leaf nodes as foreign tables that's a problem here? Cheers, David. -- David Fetter <da...@fetter.org> http://fetter.org/ Phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Yahoo!: dfetter Skype: davidfetter XMPP: david.fet...@gmail.com Remember to vote! Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers