Re: partition tree inspection functions

On 2018/10/01 15:27, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 01, 2018 at 03:16:32PM +0900, Amit Langote wrote:
>> I wasn't able to respond to some of issues that Jesper brought up with the
>> approach taken by the latest patch whereby there is no separate
>> pg_partition_level function.  He said that such a function would be useful
>> to get the information about the individual leaf partitions, but I was no
>> longer sure of providing such a function separately.
> 
> Perhaps that could be debated separately as well?  From what I can see
> what's available would unlock the psql patch which would like to add
> support for \dP, or show the size of partitions more easily.

Yeah, maybe there is no reason to delay proceeding with
pg_partition_children which provides a useful functionality.

> I am also
> not completely sure that I see the use-case for pg_partition_level or
> even pg_partition_root_parent as usually in their schemas users append
> rather similar relation names to the parent and the children.  Or
> perhaps not?

We can continue discussing that once we're done dealing with
pg_partition_children and then some other patches that are pending due to
it such as Pavel's.

Thanks,
Amit