On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 11:32 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>
> BTW, I remain totally mystified as to what people think the semantics of
> partitioning ought to be. Child columns can have a different type from
> parent columns? Really? Why is this even under discussion? We don't
> allow that in old-school inheritance, and I cannot imagine a rational
> argument why partitioning should allow it.
>
No, we aren't doing that. We are discussing here how to represent
partition bounds of top level join and all the intermediate joins
between A, B and C which are partitioned tables with different
partition key types. We are not discussing the column types of
children, join or simple.
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Best Wishes,
Ashutosh Bapat
EnterpriseDB Corporation
The Postgres Database Company
