On 18 December 2017 at 15:04, Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Dec 17, 2017 at 5:29 AM, David Rowley > <david.row...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote: >> I'm now not that clear on what the behaviour is if the ONLY keyword is >> not specified on the CREATE INDEX for the partitioned index. Does that >> go and create each leaf partition index regardless of if there is a >> suitable candidate to ATTACH? > > No, the other way around. ONLY is being proposed as a way to create > an initially-not-valid parent to which we can then ATTACH > subsequently-created child indexes. But because we will have REPLACE > rather than DETACH, once you get the index valid it never goes back to > not-valid.
I understand what the ONLY is proposed to do. My question was in regards to the behaviour without ONLY. -- David Rowley http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services