On Sat, 17 Apr 2021 at 00:03, Matthias van de Meent <boekewurm+postg...@gmail.com> wrote: > PFA an updated patch. I've updated the wording of the previous patch, > and also updated this section in alter_table.sgml, but with different > wording, explictly explaining the process used to validate the altered > default constraint.
I had to squint at this: +ALTER TABLE measurement_default ADD CONSTRAINT excl_y2008m02 + CHECK ( (logdate >= DATE '2008-02-01' AND logdate < DATE '2008-03-01') IS FALSE ); I tried your example and it does not work. set client_min_messages = 'debug1'; create table rp (dt date not null) partition by range(dt); create table rp_default partition of rp default; alter table rp_default add constraint rp_default_chk check ((dt >= '2022-01-01' and dt < '2023-01-01') is false); create table rp_2022 partition of rp for values from ('2022-01-01') to ('2023-01-01'); There's no debug message to indicate that the constraint was used. Let's try again: alter table rp_default drop constraint rp_default_chk; drop table rp_2022; alter table rp_default add constraint rp_default_chk check (not (dt >= '2022-01-01' and dt < '2023-01-01')); create table rp_2022 partition of rp for values from ('2022-01-01') to ('2023-01-01'); DEBUG: updated partition constraint for default partition "rp_default" is implied by existing constraints The debug message indicates that it worked as expected that time. But to be honest, I don't know why you've even added that. There's not even an example on how to add a DEFAULT partition, so why should we include an example of how to add a CHECK constraint on one? I've spent a bit of time hacking at this and I've come up with the attached patch. David
partition_doc_fixes.patch
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