Re: BUG #15587: Partitions with ALTER TABLE ADD CONSTRAINT - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: BUG #15587: Partitions with ALTER TABLE ADD CONSTRAINT
Date
Msg-id 201901151824.mxkelqcnfeq6@alvherre.pgsql
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In response to Re: BUG #15587: Partitions with ALTER TABLE ADD CONSTRAINT  (Jesper Pedersen <jesper.pedersen@redhat.com>)
Responses Re: BUG #15587: Partitions with ALTER TABLE ADD CONSTRAINT  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On 2019-Jan-10, Jesper Pedersen wrote:

> On 1/10/19 12:11 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > On 2019-Jan-10, PG Bug reporting form wrote:
> > > Removing ONLY from the ALTER command makes the index correct.
> > 
> > I'm not clear what problem you're reporting.  If you use ONLY, then the
> > command doesn't cascade to create the index on partitions, and the index
> > is marked invalid.  If you add the constraint to each partition and
> > ALTER INDEX ATTACH PARTITION, the index on t1 should become valid when
> > every partition of the table has its index.
> 
> However, when you use ADD CONSTRAINT FOREIGN KEY you can't use ONLY, so
> would it be a good idea to make ADD CONSTRAINT UNIQUE behave the same way,
> i.e. error out ?

I haven't investigated this angle.  It seems more complex than just a
simple bugfix, right?

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