Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes: > But when I say > CREATE TABLE ( a int PRIMARY KEY, ... ) PARTITION blah ... > then I expect that the primary key will be enforced across all > partitions. We currently sidestep that issue by not offering seemingly > transparent partitioning. But if you are planning to offer that, the > unique index issue needs to be solved, and I see nothing in your plan > about that.
Agreed, it needs to Just Work. I think it'd still be useful though if we only support auto-partitioning on the primary key, and that restriction avoids the indexing problem.
regards, tom lane
Sure, but as Chris mentioned earlier, wouldn't it be useful to maintain uniqueness on a partition-by-partition basis too?
