Re: [HACKERS] Declarative partitioning vs. sql_inheritance

On 2016/12/17 10:40, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 7:39 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
>>> On 12/16/16 11:05 AM, Robert Haas wrote:
>>>> If we were going to do anything about this,
>>>> my vote would be to remove sql_inheritance.
>>
>>> Go for it.
>>
>>> Let's also remove the table* syntax then.
>>
>> Meh --- that might break existing queries, to what purpose?
>>
>> We certainly shouldn't remove query syntax without a deprecation period.
>> I'm less concerned about that for GUCs.
> 
> I agree.  Patch attached, just removing the GUC and a fairly minimal
> amount of the supporting infrastructure.

+1 to removing the sql_inheritance GUC.  The patch looks good to me.

Thanks,
Amit