> On Dec 9, 2016, at 22:52, Keith Fiske <keith@omniti.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 10:01 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
>> One thing that's tricky/annoying about this is that if you have a
>> DEFAULT partition and then add a partition, you have to scan the
>> DEFAULT partition for data that should be moved to the new partition.
>> That makes what would otherwise be a quick operation slow. Still, I'm
>> sure there's a market for that feature.
>
> I would find that perfectly acceptable as long as a caveat about the performance impact was included in the
documentation.
+1. I don't think it's conceptually different from adding a column with a default, in that regard; you just have to
knowthe impact.
