Stephen Frost wrote: > Tom, > > * Tom Lane (t...@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote:
> > BTW, so far as the HEAD version of this patch goes, I notice that > > ATTACH PARTITION and DETACH PARTITION were recently added to the > > list of exceptions. But they're not exceptions according to this > > wording: they act on more than one table (the parent and the > > partition), no? So we could simplify the sentence some more by > > removing them again. > > I had considered removing those but thought that some users might think > that they're only "altering" one table and therefore felt it made sense > to keep those explicitly listed. I agree with Stephen; it's not crystal clear from the user's POV that the command is altering two tables. It's worth mentioning this explicitly; otherwise this is just a documented gotcha. -- Álvaro Herrera https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
