Re: inheritance. more.

[Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>]

"Karsten Hilbert" <Karsten(dot)Hilbert(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
>> And maybe having one huge index managing the uniqueness across partitioned
>> data just defeats the idea of data partitioning!

> Except when you want uniqueness across all partitions.

Well, the point was that if the partitioning arrangement guarantees to
put distinct ranges of the key into distinct tables, then a separate
unique constraint on each table would suffice to guarantee global
uniqueness.

You can set up such a thing today, but it's a manual jury-rigged affair.
An automatic partitioning system would be a lot nicer.

			regards, tom lane