From: Jehan-Guillaume de Rorthais <jgdr@dalibo.com>
To: Arne Roland <A.Roland@index.de>
Cc: Christophe Courtois <christophe.courtois@dalibo.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Detaching a partition with a FK on itself is not possible
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2022 11:36:34 +0100
Message-ID: <20220321113634.68c09d4b@karst> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <666ad9554f9d4781aa45c4613544075d@index.de>
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<666ad9554f9d4781aa45c4613544075d@index.de>
Hi,
On Thu, 17 Mar 2022 17:58:04 +0000
Arne Roland <A.Roland@index.de> wrote:
> I don't think this a bug, but a feature request. I therefore think hackers
> would be more appropriate.
+1
I changed the list destination
> I don't see how an additional syntax to modify the constraint should help.
Me neiher.
> If I'd want to fix this, I'd try to teach the detach partition code about
> self referencing foreign keys. It seems to me like that would be the cleanest
> solution, because the user doesn't need to care about this at all.
Teaching the detach partition about self referencing means either:
* it's safe to remove the FK
* we can rewrite the FK for self referencing
Both solution are not ideal from the original schema and user perspective.
Another solution could be to teach the create partition to detect a self
referencing FK and actually create a self referencing FK, not pointing to the
partitioned table, and of course issuing a NOTICE to the client.
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Subject: Re: Detaching a partition with a FK on itself is not possible
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