Re: error-free disabling of individual child partition

[Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)skype(dot)net>]

Ühel kenal päeval, T, 2006-05-23 kell 09:37, kirjutas Tom Lane:
> "Zeugswetter Andreas DCP SD" <ZeugswetterA(at)spardat(dot)at> writes:
> >>> We don't need a disinherit do we?
> 
> > I propose: ALTER TABLE childN INHERITS ();
> > Thus I also think, that the list should be complete, and is not an
> > addition to existing inheritance.
> 
> Don't like that at all: it seems far too error-prone.

In what way ?

Do you mean that it will be easy for the user to make errors, od do yuo
think that it will be hard to implement in a robust way ?

In the first case, I'd propose following syntax

ALTER TABLE childN ALTER INHERITS DROP (parent);
ALTER TABLE childN ALTER INHERITS ADD (parent);

With this syntax reparenting would need an explicit transaction and two
"ALTER TABLE ... ALTER INHERITS ..." commands, but it is (arguably)
harder to make mistakes.

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