Re: default child of partition master

"April Lorenzen" <outboundindex@gmail.com> writes:
> My suggestion is to allow specifying a default destination table in
> the master partition table definition. This default destination table
> could be changed with ALTER TABLE.

The recommended way to do this is with an ON INSERT DO INSTEAD rule
on the master table.  The advantage of using rules is that you can have
several conditional rules to ensure that insertions go into the right
sub-tables, whereas a default would likely just fail :-(
        regards, tom lane