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Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2020 13:25:19 -0400
From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Cc: jan.mussler@zalando.de, pgsql-bugs@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Re: BUG #16594: DROP INDEX CONCURRENTLY fails on partitioned table
 with a non helpful error message.
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On 2020-Aug-27, Michael Paquier wrote:

> The error message is really confusing though, so for now I would
> recommend to just drop an error if trying the operation on a
> partitioned table, and we also do that now for CREATE INDEX
> CONCURRENTLY.

Yeah, let's throw an error if the table is partitioned.  My bug -- I'll
go fix it now.

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