</para>
<para>
- When used on partitioned tables, unique constraints must include all the
- columns of the partition key.
- If any partitions are in turn partitioned, all columns of each partition
- key are considered at each level below the <literal>UNIQUE</literal>
- constraint.
+ When establishing a unique constraint for a multi-level partition
+ hierarchy, all the columns in the partition key of the target
+ partitioned table, as well as those of all its descendant partitioned
+ tables, must be included in the constraint definition.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
ERROR: circular inheritance not allowed
DETAIL: "list_parted2" is already a child of "list_parted2".
-- If a partitioned table being created or an existing table being attached
--- as a paritition does not have a constraint that would allow validation scan
+-- as a partition does not have a constraint that would allow validation scan
-- to be skipped, but an individual partition does, then the partition's
-- validation scan is skipped.
CREATE TABLE quuux (a int, b text) PARTITION BY LIST (a);
ERROR: insufficient columns in PRIMARY KEY constraint definition
DETAIL: PRIMARY KEY constraint on table "idxpart2" lacks column "b" which is part of the partition key.
drop table idxpart;
+-- Ditto for the ATTACH PARTITION case
+create table idxpart (a int primary key, b int) partition by range (a);
+create table idxpart1 (a int not null, b int, primary key (a, b))
+ partition by range (a, b);
+alter table idxpart attach partition idxpart1 for values from (1) to (1000);
+ERROR: insufficient columns in PRIMARY KEY constraint definition
+DETAIL: PRIMARY KEY constraint on table "idxpart1" lacks column "b" which is part of the partition key.
+DROP TABLE idxpart, idxpart1;
-- Multi-layer partitioning works correctly in this case:
create table idxpart (a int, b int, primary key (a, b)) partition by range (a);
create table idxpart2 partition of idxpart for values from (0) to (1000) partition by range (b);
ALTER TABLE list_parted2 ATTACH PARTITION list_parted2 FOR VALUES IN (0);
-- If a partitioned table being created or an existing table being attached
--- as a paritition does not have a constraint that would allow validation scan
+-- as a partition does not have a constraint that would allow validation scan
-- to be skipped, but an individual partition does, then the partition's
-- validation scan is skipped.
CREATE TABLE quuux (a int, b text) PARTITION BY LIST (a);
for values from (0) to (1000) partition by range (b); -- fail
drop table idxpart;
+-- Ditto for the ATTACH PARTITION case
+create table idxpart (a int primary key, b int) partition by range (a);
+create table idxpart1 (a int not null, b int, primary key (a, b))
+ partition by range (a, b);
+alter table idxpart attach partition idxpart1 for values from (1) to (1000);
+DROP TABLE idxpart, idxpart1;
+
-- Multi-layer partitioning works correctly in this case:
create table idxpart (a int, b int, primary key (a, b)) partition by range (a);
create table idxpart2 partition of idxpart for values from (0) to (1000) partition by range (b);