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authorDavid Rowley <drowley@postgresql.org>2025-04-02 14:04:31 +1300
committerDavid Rowley <drowley@postgresql.org>2025-04-02 14:04:31 +1300
commit2be0fe94bf20e9125a47aa216ee9b07d96ff0fae (patch)
tree90752dd66ec98516b738bd4f6150498b9cecad75
parenta7f213b11d92e7a6423821d041e283c4fde6ee5b (diff)
Doc: add information about partition locking
The documentation around locking of partitions for the executor startup phase of run-time partition pruning wasn't clear about which partitions were being locked. Fix that. Reviewed-by: Tender Wang <tndrwang@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAApHDvp738G75HfkKcfXaf3a8s%3D6mmtOLh46tMD0D2hAo1UCzA%40mail.gmail.com Backpatch-through: 13
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diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ddl.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ddl.sgml
index 7f3d7e2c3e8..dd00bbdaa79 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ddl.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ddl.sgml
@@ -4812,7 +4812,9 @@ EXPLAIN SELECT count(*) FROM measurement WHERE logdate &gt;= DATE '2008-01-01';
It is possible to determine the number of partitions which were
removed during this phase by observing the
<quote>Subplans Removed</quote> property in the
- <command>EXPLAIN</command> output.
+ <command>EXPLAIN</command> output. It's important to note that any
+ partitions removed by the partition pruning done at this stage are
+ still locked at the beginning of execution.
</para>
</listitem>