On 2019-Jul-30, Tom Lane wrote: > I wrote: > > This may be arguing for a change in ruleutils' existing behavior, > > not sure. But when dealing with traditional-style inheritance, > > I've always thought that Vars above the Append were referring to > > the parent rel in its capacity as the parent, not in its capacity > > as the first child. With new-style partitioning drawing a clear > > distinction between the parent and all its children, it's easier > > to understand the difference. > > OK, so experimenting, I see that it is a change: [...]
> The portion of this below the Append is fine, but I argue that > the Vars above the Append should say "part", not "part_p1". > In that way they'd look the same regardless of which partitions > have been pruned or not. So is anyone working on a patch to use this approach? -- Álvaro Herrera https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services
