Re: Broken defenses against dropping a partitioning column - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Robert Haas
Subject Re: Broken defenses against dropping a partitioning column
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In response to Re: Broken defenses against dropping a partitioning column  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>)
Responses Re: Broken defenses against dropping a partitioning column  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
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On Mon, Jul 8, 2019 at 10:32 AM Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> That said, I'm not sure I see the use case for an ALTER TABLE .. DROP
> COLUMN command that turns a partitioned table (with existing partitions
> containing data) into one non-partitioned table with all data minus the
> partitioning column(s).

I think it would be useful to have "ALTER TABLE blah NOT PARTITIONED" but I

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