Hi Jeevan,
On 2017/09/12 18:22, Jeevan Ladhe wrote:
> Commit 6f6b99d1335be8ea1b74581fc489a97b109dd08a introduced default
> partitioning support. This commit added a new function
> check_default_allows_bound(),
> which checks if there exists a row in the default partition that would
> belong to
> the new partition being added. If it finds one, it throws an error. Before
> taking
> the decision to scan the default partition, this function checks if there
> are
> existing constraints on default partition that would imply the new partition
> constraints, if yes it skips scanning the default partition, otherwise it
> scans the
> default partition and its children(if any). But, while doing so the current
> code
> misses the fact that there can be constraints on the child of default
> partition
> such that they would imply the constraints of the new partition being added,
> and hence individual child scan can also be skipped.
> Attached is the patch which does this.
>
> This is previously discussed in default partitioning thread[1], and decision
> was made that we can take this a separate patch rather than as a part of the
> default partitioning support.
Patch looks fine to me. By the way, why don't we just say "Can we skip
scanning part_rel?" in the comment before the newly added call to
PartConstraintImpliedByRelConstraint()? We don't need to repeat the
explanation of what it does at the every place we call it.
> Amit Langote has a similar patch[2] for scanning the children of a
> partitioned
> table which is being attached as partition of another partitioned table.
I just posted my rebased patch there [1].
Thanks,
Amit
[1]
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/a83a0899-19f5-594c-9aac-3ba0f16989a1%40lab.ntt.co.jp
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