Re: Inheritance and Partitioning

On Sun, 2005-10-09 at 10:56 -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Simon Riggs wrote:
> > I'm currently doing the docs for CE & Partitioning.
> >
> > The ddl.sgml chapter had a section on Inheritance. I'm expanding that
> > section and splitting it into two:
> >
> > INHERITANCE & PARTITIONING
> >    1. Table Partitioning
> >       Existing chapter, but with more detail of a general nature that
> > will be important information when we discuss...
> >
> >    2. Basic Partitioning using Constraint Exclusion
> >       How to enhance inheritance with constraints to allow CE. How that
> > works to provide basic partitioning, with examples and long list of
> > caveats.
>
> Hmm, sorry, I missed most of the discussion on CE -- is it used only
> in inheritance?

Regrettably at this time. I couldn't find a clear point to put the code
that would allow it to work cleanly for the UNION ALL case, at least in
the time available.

> Maybe you should add a separate section on
> partitioning, referring to the inheritance section where appropiate.
> But they are clearly not the same feature.
>
> Also, it will be more clearly separated as we add more partitioning
> related features, right?

OK. I'll keep the same flow, just promote both up a level.

So there'll be two <sect1>s for each concept.

Best Regards, Simon Riggs