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From: Dave Page <[email protected]>
To: Akshay Joshi <[email protected]>
Cc: Shirley Wang <[email protected]>
Cc: pgadmin-hackers <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Declarative partitioning in pgAdmin4
Date: Thu, 11 May 2017 14:24:19 +0100
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On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 11:35 AM, Akshay Joshi <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi
>
> On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 4:00 PM, Dave Page <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>
>      I have updated Redmine Wiki page regarding what needs to be
> implemented for partitioning. Can we discuss prioritisation of the task
> based on above criteria in the our meeting. Meanwhile I have started
> working on showing correct SQL for partitioned table.
>

Which meeting?

-- 
Dave Page
VP, Chief Architect, Tools & Installers
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