Re: inherit support for foreign tables

On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 09:35:05AM +0900, Kyotaro HORIGUCHI wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Before suppressing the symptom, I doubt the necessity and/or
> validity of giving foreign tables an ability to be a parent. Is
> there any reasonable usage for the ability?
> 
> I think we should choose to inhibit foreign tables from becoming
> a parent rather than leaving it allowed then taking measures for
> the consequent symptom.

I have a use case for having foreign tables as non-leaf nodes in a
partitioning hierarchy, namely geographic.  One might have a table at
HQ called foo_world, then partitions under it called foo_jp, foo_us,
etc., in one level, foo_us_ca, foo_us_pa, etc. in the next level, and
on down, each in general in a separate data center.

Is there something essential about having non-leaf nodes as foreign
tables that's a problem here?

Cheers,
David.
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