Re: [HACKERS] Partitioned tables and relfilenode

On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 4:18 PM, Amit Langote
<Langote_Amit_f8@lab.ntt.co.jp> wrote:
> About autovacuum_* parameters - we currently don't handle partitioned
> tables in autovacuum.c, because no statistics are reported for them. That
> is, relation_needs_vacanalyze() will never return true for dovacuum,
> doanalyze and wraparound if it is passed a RELKIND_PARTITIONED_TABLE
> relation.  That's something to be fixed separately though.  When we add
> autovacuum support for partitioned tables, we may want to add a new set of
> reloptions (new because partitioned tables still won't support all options
> returned by heap_reloptions()).  Am I missing something?

OK. I got confused by the fact that settings on parents should
super-seed the settings of the children. Or if you want if a value is
set on the parent by default it would apply to the child if it has no
value set, which is where autovacuum_enabled makes sense even for
partitioned tables. Leading to the point that parents could have
reloptions, with a new category of the type RELOPT_KIND_PARTITION.
Still, it is sensible as well to bypass the parents in autovacuum as
well, now that I read it. And the handling is more simple.
-- 
Michael