Andrew Dunstan <and...@dunslane.net> writes: > Those are difficulties, certainly. Are they insurmountable obstacles, > though? This is something that has been on the TODO list for ages and I > think is very worth doing, if we can.
They're possibly surmountable with enough effort, though I think in reality what you'd end up with is annoying corner-case behaviors (eg, deadlock failures in some cases). Anyway Greg and I seem to agree on the bottom line: such a feature is not actually interesting for partitioned tables, as it destroys most of the benefits of partitioning. I have a feeling that the feature will languish on the TODO list forever, unless someone comes up with a brilliant idea to avoid the problems. As is, the return on investment to do it just isn't there. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers