Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2017 11:37:34 -0300
From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
To: "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>
Cc: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>,
	Amit Langote <Langote_Amit_f8@lab.ntt.co.jp>,
	Corey Huinker <corey.huinker@gmail.com>,
	Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Documentation improvements for partitioning
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Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> On 02/15/2017 06:10 AM, Simon Riggs wrote:
> > On 13 February 2017 at 05:21, Amit Langote
> > <Langote_Amit_f8@lab.ntt.co.jp> wrote:
> 
> > If I issue DROP TABLE elsewhere, it doesn't refuse to drop because it
> > has indexes, sequences etc on it. So why should it just because it has
> > partitions?
> 
> Because partitions may have data.

So would the table, were it not partitioned.

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