On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 10:19 AM, Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com> wrote:
>> Yeah, that's not crazy. I find it a bit surprising in terms of the
>> semantics, though. SET
>> when_i_try_to_insert_into_a_specific_partition_i_dont_really_mean_it =
>> true?
>
> Maybe
> SET partition_tuple_retry = true;
> -or-
> SET partition_tuple_reroute = true;
> ?
>
> I like the idea of only rerouting when failing constraints although I
> can envision where there might be use cases where you essentially want
> to re-partition and therefore reroute everything, leading to:
>
> SET partition_tuple_reroute = (none | error | all);
Personally, I think it's more elegant to make this a pg_dump option
than to make it a server GUC, but I'm not going to spend time fighting
the server GUC idea if other people like it.
--
Robert Haas
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