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From: Dave Page <[email protected]>
To: Akshay Joshi <[email protected]>
Cc: pgadmin-hackers <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Declarative partitioning in pgAdmin4
Date: Thu, 4 May 2017 11:30:25 +0100
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Hi

On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 10:29 AM, Akshay Joshi <[email protected]
> wrote:

> Hi All
>
> On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 5:35 PM, Dave Page <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Great, thanks.
>>
>> I think it's clear that we need to display the child partitions in the
>> treeview. I don't see any other sensible way of enabling those operations
>> without an extremely contrived dialogue design.
>>
>> Please now document how those features will be implemented; e.g, for each
>> one:
>>
>> - View table data: Parent and partition context menu.
>> - Attach/detach partitions: Parent properties dialogue
>> ...
>>
>> That will then give us a list of places we'll need to (re)design
>> dialogues and menus etc. for.
>>
>
>     As per my knowledge on Partitioning, I think we will have to implement
> following things in parent and child:
>
>    Parent:
>
>    1. View Table data :  No need to change any logic, it's working.
>    2. Correct jinja template to show correct SQL in SQL pane.
>    3. Create partitioned table -
>       - Add one switch control ("Partitioned Table?") in General tab of
>       Table dialog.
>       - Add new tab "Partitions".
>       - Add one select2 control (Partition Type :Range/List) in
>       "Partitions" tab.
>       - Create one subnode control to specify number of key columns with
>       expressions. For List partition only one row will be there + button will be
>       disabled, and for Range partition + button will be enabled. Here is the
>       syntax as per documentation [ PARTITION BY { RANGE | LIST } ( {
>       *column_name* | ( *expression* ) } [ COLLATE *collation* ] [
>       *opclass* ] [, ... ] ) ]. *Design discussion required here for how
>       user will specify expression, collate and opclass*.
>    4. Create N number of partitions:
>       - Design one control (subnode control) so that user will add N
>       number of partitions. Here is the syntax as per documentation CREATE
>        TABLE  *table_name PARTITION OF parent_table [ (   { column_name [
>       WITH OPTIONS ] [ column_constraint [ ... ] ]     | table_constraint }
>       [, ... ] ) ] FOR VALUES partition_bound_spec **partition_bound_spec*
>        is:
>
>       { IN ( { *bound_literal* | NULL } [, ...] ) |
>         FROM ( { *bound_literal* | UNBOUNDED } [, ...] ) TO ( { *bound_literal* | UNBOUNDED } [, ...] ) }
>
>       - *Design discussion required here for how user will specify all
>       the above combinations.*
>    5. Properties dialog "Partitions" Tab:
>       - Partition Type control must be disabled.
>       - User will be able to create/modify existing partitions. User
>       won't be able to delete partitions as there are two modes Detach/Drop and
>       we will have separate menu for it.
>    6. Drop/ Drop cascade, Truncate: No need to change any logic, it's
>    working.
>    7. Attach Partitions:  Create context menu on partitioned table. When
>    user clicks, open one dialog with some controls to provide table(to be
>    attach) and partition_bound_spec*. Design discussion required here.*
>    8. Not able to create constraints excluding check constraint:  We will
>    have to disable context menu, remove child nodes from browser tree for
>    constraints and disable controls from the dialog.
>
>     Child:
>
>    1. View Table Data: Add context menu.
>    2. Detach partition: Create context menu, when user click popped up
>    confirmation message box.
>    3. View partition scheme in SQL pane: Changes required in jinja
>    template.
>    4. Create primary/foreign/.. key constraint: No need to change any
>    logic on GUI, but may need to change queries to fetch the partitioned
>    tables.
>    5. Drop/ Drop cascade, Truncate: No need to change any logic.
>
>     Apart from above it may be possible that I miss something, so we need
> to cover that too.
>

OK, good. So now, let's break that down into a list of tasks, that we can
prioritise with Shirley. The initial list should be prioritised based on
your understanding I think, given the following criteria:

- Changes that prevent pgAdmin breaking
- Changes that prevent pgAdmin showing incorrect data/info
- Changes that enable pgAdmin to show correct info
- Changes that add functionality for creating/dropping partitioned tables
as one unit
- Changes that add functionality for modifying individual partitions
independently

Please document the requirements and initial plan on the pgAdmin Redmine
Wiki.

Thanks!

-- 
Dave Page
Blog: http://pgsnake.blogspot.com
Twitter: @pgsnake

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