Re: Foreign Tables as Partitions

On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 8:56 PM, David Fetter <david@fetter.org> wrote:
> Please find attached a PoC patch to implement $subject.
>
> So far, with a lot of help from Andrew Gierth, I've roughed out an
> implementation which allows you to ALTER FOREIGN TABLE so it inherits
> a local table.
>
> TBD: CREATE FOREIGN TABLE ... INHERITS ..., docs, regression testing,
> etc., etc.

I think this could be useful, but it's going to take more than a
three-line patch.  Removing code that prohibits things is easy; what's
hard is verifying that nothing else breaks as a result.  And I bet it
does.

This functionality was actually present in the original submission for
foreign tables.  I ripped it out before commit because I didn't think
all of the interactions with other commands had been adequately
considered.  But I think they did consider it to some degree, which
this patch does not.

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