On Wed, 2010-08-11 at 11:03 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Simon Riggs <si...@2ndquadrant.com> writes: > > On Wed, 2010-08-11 at 13:25 +0300, Heikki Linnakangas wrote: > >> I concur that Boxuan's suggested "difficult" approach seems like the > >> right one. > > > Right, but you've completely ignored my proposal: lets do this in two > > pieces. Get what we have now ready to commit, then add support for > > partitioning later, as a second project. > > Do we really think this is anywhere near committable now? > > If it's committable in every other respect, I could see just having it > throw a NOT_IMPLEMENTED error when the target table has children. > I thought we were still a very long way from that though.
Well, if we go off chasing this particular goose then we will set ourselves back at least one commitfest. I'd rather work towards having a fully committable patch without inheritance sooner than an even bigger patch arriving later in the cycle, which could make things difficult for us. I cite recent big patch experience as admissible evidence, m'lord. -- Simon Riggs www.2ndQuadrant.com PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training and Services -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
