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From: Christophe Pettus <[email protected]>
To: pgsql-general <[email protected]>
Subject: Overlapping values (?) in multi-column partitioned tables
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2024 15:13:47 -0700
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)

Hi,

I am clearly not understanding something.  Consider:

> xof=# create table t (pk bigint not null, ts timestamp not null) partition by range (ts, pk);
> CREATE TABLE
> xof=# create table t1 partition of t for values from ('2024-01-01'::timestamp, minvalue) to ('2024-02-01'::timestamp, maxvalue);
> CREATE TABLE
> xof=# create table t2 partition of t for values from ('2024-02-01'::timestamp, minvalue) to ('2024-03-01'::timestamp, maxvalue);
> ERROR:  partition "t2" would overlap partition "t1"
> LINE 1: ...on of t for values from ('2024-02-01'::timestamp, minvalue) ...
>                                                              ^
> xof=# 

In what way do those partitions overlap?  In other words, there does not appear to be a value of (ts, pk) having '2024-01-01'::timestamp <= ts < '2024-03-01'::timestamp for any pk where it would be ambiguous which partition that row would go into.  (I'm imagining it on a cartesian plane, and there isn't any overlap between the rectangles those partition boundaries define.)

I'm obviously missing something, but... what?  Thank you!

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