From: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2015 04:08:56 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: Add paragraph about ON CONFLICT interaction with partitioning.
X-Git-Tag: REL9_6_BETA1~1119
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c31f1dc55992bc8b2c35c0ff99795547d4df323a;p=postgresql

Add paragraph about ON CONFLICT interaction with partitioning.

Author: Peter Geoghegan and Andres Freund
Discussion: CAM3SWZScpWzQ-7EJC77vwqzZ1GO8GNmURQ1QqDQ3wRn7AbW1Cg@mail.gmail.com,
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Backpatch: 9.5, where UPSERT was introduced
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diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ddl.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ddl.sgml
index a889ffc547..449b54fa67 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ddl.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ddl.sgml
@@ -3246,6 +3246,15 @@ ANALYZE measurement;
      </para>
     </listitem>
 
+    <listitem>
+     <para>
+      <command>INSERT</command> statements with <literal>ON CONFLICT</>
+      clauses are unlikely to work as expected, as the <literal>ON CONFLICT</>
+      action is only taken in case of unique violations on the specified
+      target relation, not its child relations.
+     </para>
+    </listitem>
+
    </itemizedlist>
    </para>