On Thu, Nov 2, 2017 at 1:52 PM, Ashutosh Bapat <ashutosh.ba...@enterprisedb.com> wrote: > Right now partition keys are immutable but we don't have much code > written with that assumption. All the code usually keeps a lock on the > parent till the time they use the information in the partition key. In > a distant future, which may not exist, we may support ALTER TABLE ... > PARTITION BY to change partition keys (albeit at huge cost of data > movement). If we do that, we will have to remember this one-off > instance of code which assumes that the partition keys are immutable.
I am pretty sure this is by no means the only piece of code which assumes that. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
