Re: [HACKERS] [POC] hash partitioning

On 2017/05/12 10:42, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 12:02 PM, Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut@gmail.com> wrote:
>> We need to add PARTITION_STRATEGY_HASH as well, we don't support NULL
>> for hash also, right?
> 
> I think it should.
> 
> Actually, I think that not supporting nulls for range partitioning may
> have been a fairly bad decision.

I think the relevant discussion concluded [1] that way, because we
couldn't decide which interface to provide for specifying where NULLs are
placed or because we decided to think about it later.

Thanks,
Amit

[1]
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CA%2BTgmoZN_Zf7MBb48O66FAJgFe0S9_NkLVeQNBz6hsxb6Og93w%40mail.gmail.com