On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 6:08 PM, David Rowley <david.row...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote: > On 17 January 2018 at 03:58, Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@alvh.no-ip.org> wrote: >>> 9. Error details claim that p2_a_idx is not a partition of p. >>> Shouldn't it say table "p2" is not a partition of "p"? >> >> You missed the "on" in the DETAIL: >> DETAIL: Index "p2_a_idx" is not on a partition of table "p". >> You could argue that this is obscurely worded, but if you look at the >> command: >> ALTER INDEX p_a_idx ATTACH PARTITION p2_a_idx; >> nowhere is table p2 mentioned, so I'm not sure it's a great idea to >> mention the table in the error message. > > I think I did miss the "on".
I think you will not be the only person to make that mistake. I think it would be better phrased as DETAIL: "p2_a_idx" is not an index of any partition of table "p" -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
