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authorDavid Rowley <drowley@postgresql.org>2025-04-02 14:05:15 +1300
committerDavid Rowley <drowley@postgresql.org>2025-04-02 14:05:15 +1300
commitebbdaf1fd59d3bad4bb0aee346ad6f8a225549d1 (patch)
tree9b6f0fd3adc182eeb16b17b19ac8e95ef0c0c268
parente4440a73c7ef5f19da9501eca06b61e252d392d0 (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 38725a12f6d..e1e31abb321 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ddl.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ddl.sgml
@@ -4698,7 +4698,9 @@ 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.
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