On Monday, January 12, 2026, Chao Li <[email protected]> wrote: > > For now, I’ve limited the change to REPLICA IDENTITY to see whether there > are objections to this approach. If there are none, I plan to extend the > same warning behavior to the other sub-commands listed above. After that, > users can reasonably assume that an ALTER TABLE partitioned_table > ... action will recurse to child partitions unless a warning explicitly > tells them otherwise. >
It should be a notice, not a warning. How about indicating how many partitions were affected in the notice and allowing the absence of such a notice to be the indicator that cascading did not happen? David J.
