The following bug has been logged online:
Bug reference: 2857
Logged by: Tomislav Karastojkovic
Email address: karastojko@gmail.com
PostgreSQL version: 8.1.4, 8.2.0
Operating system: Linux
Description: Sequence and table partitioning
Details:
Sequence does not increase by 1 when tables is partitioned!
For example, let define 'parent' and 'child' tables, with column 'id' of
type 'serial':
CREATE TABLE parent(id serial, message text);
CREATE TABLE child() INHERITS(parent);
ALTER TABLE child ALTER id DROP DEFAULT;
Default value is dropped from the child table, so sequence is used only in
the 'parent' table.
If we set a rule
CREATE OR REPLACE RULE r AS ON INSERT TO parent DO INSTEAD INSERT INTO child
VALUES(NEW.id, NEW.message);
then each inserting into table 'parent' increases sequence 'parent_id_seq'
by 1, as it should. But if we add a condition for 'id' when setting the rule
like
CREATE OR REPLACE RULE r AS ON INSERT TO parent WHERE id>=1 AND id <= 100 DO
INSTEAD INSERT INTO child VALUES(NEW.id, NEW.message);
then the sequence is increasing by 5 when inserting into 'parent' table.
This seems to be a bug.
