On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 3:29 PM, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> wrote:
> * Robert Haas (robertmhaas@gmail.com) wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 6:29 AM, Amit Langote
>> <Langote_Amit_f8@lab.ntt.co.jp> wrote:
>> > Actually, p1 is a partitioned table, so the error. And I realize that
>> > that's a wrong behavior. Currently the check is performed using only the
>> > relkind, which is bogus. Specifying ONLY should cause an error only when
>> > the table has partitions.
>>
>> That sounds like a REALLY bad idea, because now you're going to end up
>> with a constraint that can never be enforced against any actual data
>> rows ... or else you're going to later pretend that ONLY wasn't
>> specified. I think the rule that partitioned tables can't have
>> non-inherited constraints is absolutely right, and relaxing it is
>> quite wrong.
>
> I'm not following what you're getting at here.
Urk, I might be confusing ONLY with NO INHERIT. Let me think about
this again...
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