Re: Remove mention in docs that foreign keys on partitioned tablesare not supported

On 06/29/2018 02:30 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 10:26 PM, Amit Langote
> <Langote_Amit_f8@lab.ntt.co.jp> wrote:
>> By the way, picking up on the word "inherited" in the error message shown
>> above, I wonder if you decided against using similar terminology
>> intentionally.
> 
> Good question.
> 
>> I guess the thinking there is that the terminology being
>> used extensively with columns and constraints ("inherited column/check
>> constraint cannot be dropped", etc.) is just a legacy of partitioning
>> sharing implementation with inheritance.
> 
> It seems to me that we can talk about things being inherited by
> partitions even if we're calling the feature partitioning, rather than
> inheritance.  Maybe that's confusing, but then again, maybe it's not
> that confusing.
> 

my 2c: I don't think it's confusing. Inheritance is a generic concept, 
not attached exclusively to the "table inheritance". If you look at docs 
from other databases, you'll see "partition inherits" all the time.

regards

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