Re: [HACKERS] New partitioning - some feedback

On 07/07/17 19:54, Michael Banck wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 07, 2017 at 07:40:55PM +1200, Mark Kirkwood wrote:
>> On 07/07/17 13:29, Amit Langote wrote:
>>> Someone complained about this awhile back [1].  And then it came up again
>>> [2], where Noah appeared to take a stance that partitions should be
>>> visible in views / output of commands that list "tables".
>>>
>>> Although I too tend to prefer not filling up the \d output space by
>>> listing partitions (pg_class.relispartition = true relations), there
>>> wasn't perhaps enough push for creating a patch for that.  If some
>>> committer is willing to consider such a patch, I can make one.
>> Yeah, me too (clearly). However if the consensus is that all these partition
>> tables *must* be shown in \d output, then I'd be happy if they were
>> identified as such rather than just 'table' (e.g 'partition table').
> +1.
>
> Or maybe just 'partition' is enough if 'partition table' would widen the
> column output unnecessarily.
>
>

Yeah, that is probably better (and 'partition table' is potentially 
confusing as Robert pointed out).

Cheers

Mark