Re: ATTACH/DETACH PARTITION CONCURRENTLY

On Tue, Nov 6, 2018 at 1:54 PM Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> Error in the COPY or in the DDL? COPY preferred. Somebody with insert rights shouldn't be able to prevent a
table-ownerlevel action. People normally drop partitions to save space, so it could be annoying if that was
interrupted.

Yeah, the COPY.

> Supporting parallel query shouldn't make other cases more difficult from a behavioral perspective just to avoid the
ERROR.The ERROR sounds annoying, but not sure how annoying avoiding it would be.
 

In my view, it's not just a question of it being annoying, but of
whether anything else is even sensible.  I mean, you can avoid an
error when a user types SELECT 1/0 by returning NULL or 42, but that's
not usually how we roll around here.

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