On 2018-Jul-05, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On 01.06.18 23:33, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> >>> - should we find a unified term for "inheritence-based partitioning" and avoid
> >>> using the word "partitioning" in that context? For example: "Partitioning
> >>> can be implemented using table inheritance[...]". One possible phrase
> >>> currently begin used is: "legacy inheritance method".
> >>
> >> Yeah, maybe it'd be a good time to do that. In particular I wondered
> >> whether the section title "Partitioning and Constraint Exclusion" should
> >> be changed somehow to note the fact that it's mostly for the legacy
> >> method.
> >
> > I made changes to avoid "partition" (which I think should mean a child of
> > relkind='p', and itself of relkind='r') and "partitioned" (meaning relkind='p'
> > itself) but left alone most instances of "partitioning".
>
> Committed.
Thanks for handling this.
Should we do this in REL_11_STABLE too? I vote yes.
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