On 2020-Feb-27, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> The attached allows CREATE/ALTER to specify reloptions on a partitioned table
> which are used as defaults for future children.
>
> I think that's a desirable behavior, same as for tablespaces. Michael
> mentioned that ALTER INDEX ONLY doesn't exist, but that's only an issue if
> ALTER acts recursively, which isn't the case here.
I think ALTER not acting recursively is a bug that we would do well not
to propagate any further. Enough effort we have to spend trying to fix
that already. Let's add ALTER .. ONLY if needed.
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