Re: pg_dump is broken for partition tablespaces

On Wed, Mar 06, 2019 at 07:45:06PM +1300, David Rowley wrote:
> Partitioned indexes have this similar inherit tablespace from parent
> feature, so ca4103025dfe26 was intended to align the behaviour of the
> two. Partitioned indexes happen not to suffer from the same issue as
> the indexes are attached after their creation similar to what I
> propose above.
>
> Can anyone see any fundamental reason that we should not create a
> partitioned table by doing CREATE TABLE followed by ATTACH PARTITION?
>  If not, I'll write a patch that fixes it that way.

The part for partitioned indexes is already battle-proven, so if the
part for partitioned tables can be consolidated the same way that
would be really nice.

> As far as I can see, the biggest fundamental difference with doing
> things this way will be that the column order of partitions will be
> preserved, where before it would inherit the order of the partitioned
> table.  I'm a little unsure if doing this column reordering was an
> intended side-effect or not.

I don't see any direct issues with that to be honest thinking about
it..
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Michael