Re: Can not drop partition if exist foreign keys - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Laurenz Albe
Subject Re: Can not drop partition if exist foreign keys
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Msg-id 4734b034a623e8fa9d7522e4b4b7995cd1f3728f.camel@cybertec.at
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In response to Can not drop partition if exist foreign keys  (Олег Самойлов <splarv@ya.ru>)
List pgsql-general
On Wed, 2023-10-11 at 14:08 +0300, Олег Самойлов wrote:
> There are two common practice to drop partition from partitioned table: just drop or detach-drop.
> But simple drop don't work if exist foreign key. Example script attached.

That is working as designed.  You cannot detach a partition of a table if a
foreign key points to it.

Create the foreign key constraints between the partitions instead.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe



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