Re: [HACKERS] dropping partitioned tables without CASCADE

On 6 March 2017 at 05:29, Ashutosh Bapat
<ashutosh.bapat@enterprisedb.com> wrote:

> Just to confirm, you want the output to look like this
>>> \d+ t1
>>>                                     Table "public.t1"
>>>  Column |  Type   | Collation | Nullable | Default | Storage | Stats
>>> target | Description
>>> --------+---------+-----------+----------+---------+---------+--------------+-------------
>>>  a      | integer |           | not null |         | plain   |              |
>>> Partition key: RANGE (a)
>>> Partitions: t1p1 FOR VALUES FROM (0) TO (100), HAS PARTITIONS
>>>             t1p2 FOR VALUES FROM (100) TO (200)
>
>>
>> lowercase please
>
> Except for HAS PARTITIONS, everything is part of today's output. Given
> the current output, HAS PARTITIONS should be in upper case.

"has partitions" is not part of the DDL, whereas "FOR VALUES FROM (0)
TO (100)" is. So ISTM sensible to differentiate between DDL and
non-ddl using upper and lower case.

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