Re: Declarative partitioning

On 08/20/2015 06:19 AM, David Fetter wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 06:58:24PM +0900, Amit Langote wrote:
>> Do you mean ATTACH and DETACH, if they require access exclusive lock on
>> the parent, should not be in the first cut? Or am I misreading?
> 
> Sorry I was unclear.
> 
> ATTACH and DETACH should be in the first cut even if they require an
> access exclusive lock.
> 
> Cheers,
> David.

I don't see a way for them to *ever* not require an access exclusive lock.

We could eventually implement:

DETACH PARTITION CONCURRENTLY

... but that's the only way I can see around it.

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