> On Jun 6, 2026, at 02:44, Zsolt Parragi <zsolt.parragi@percona.com> wrote:
>
>> * It is common for a partitioned table to have thousands of partitions, but I rarely hear of a regular inherited
tablehaving thousands of descendants.
>
> Yes, that's why I also wasn't sure if it's needed or not, I can
> construct scenarios where alters take a relatively long time, but
> those do not seem to be realistic at all... so maybe it's an
> acceptable limitation as you said.
>
>> BTW, do you have any comments on the doc changes in 0002 and 0003?
>
> + (check and not-null constraints) down the inheritance hierarchy. With
> + multiple inheritance, if a column or constraint is inherited from more
> + than one parent, the stricter definition applies.
>
> The documentation changes generally look good to me, but should this
> statement be part of the alter table description? There's a paragraph
> about merge rules above which might be a better fit for it.
> ("Inheritable check constraints and not-null constraints are merged in
> a similar fashion")
>
Make sense.
PFA v8: 0001 and 0003 unchanged. 0002 addressed Zsolt’s comment.
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