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authorTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>2018-04-23 15:29:11 -0400
committerTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>2018-04-23 15:29:11 -0400
commit4df58f7ed7f9ddc5a3196fcbad35690d1b3218de (patch)
treeb29e08a24c1bb4066cb4e509b076103cf0206fb7 /doc/src
parentdf044026fcaf60b22291c31f4290a3b09ecf5833 (diff)
Fix handling of partition bounds for boolean partitioning columns.
Previously, you could partition by a boolean column as long as you spelled the bound values as string literals, for instance FOR VALUES IN ('t'). The trouble with this is that ruleutils.c printed that as FOR VALUES IN (TRUE), which is reasonable syntax but wasn't accepted by the grammar. That results in dump-and-reload failures for such cases. Apply a minimal fix that just causes TRUE and FALSE to be converted to strings 'true' and 'false'. This is pretty grotty, but it's too late for a more principled fix in v11 (to say nothing of v10). We should revisit the whole issue of how partition bound values are parsed for v12. Amit Langote Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/e05c5162-1103-7e37-d1ab-6de3e0afaf70@lab.ntt.co.jp
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/src')
-rw-r--r--doc/src/sgml/ref/alter_table.sgml6
-rw-r--r--doc/src/sgml/ref/create_table.sgml6
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/alter_table.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/alter_table.sgml
index 8c7b9619b84..9ce59e3d53f 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/alter_table.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/alter_table.sgml
@@ -87,9 +87,9 @@ ALTER TABLE [ IF EXISTS ] <replaceable class="parameter">name</replaceable>
<phrase>and <replaceable class="parameter">partition_bound_spec</replaceable> is:</phrase>
-IN ( { <replaceable class="parameter">numeric_literal</replaceable> | <replaceable class="parameter">string_literal</replaceable> | NULL } [, ...] ) |
-FROM ( { <replaceable class="parameter">numeric_literal</replaceable> | <replaceable class="parameter">string_literal</replaceable> | MINVALUE | MAXVALUE } [, ...] )
- TO ( { <replaceable class="parameter">numeric_literal</replaceable> | <replaceable class="parameter">string_literal</replaceable> | MINVALUE | MAXVALUE } [, ...] ) |
+IN ( { <replaceable class="parameter">numeric_literal</replaceable> | <replaceable class="parameter">string_literal</replaceable> | TRUE | FALSE | NULL } [, ...] ) |
+FROM ( { <replaceable class="parameter">numeric_literal</replaceable> | <replaceable class="parameter">string_literal</replaceable> | TRUE | FALSE | MINVALUE | MAXVALUE } [, ...] )
+ TO ( { <replaceable class="parameter">numeric_literal</replaceable> | <replaceable class="parameter">string_literal</replaceable> | TRUE | FALSE | MINVALUE | MAXVALUE } [, ...] ) |
WITH ( MODULUS <replaceable class="parameter">numeric_literal</replaceable>, REMAINDER <replaceable class="parameter">numeric_literal</replaceable> )
<phrase>and <replaceable class="parameter">column_constraint</replaceable> is:</phrase>
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_table.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_table.sgml
index f2bd562d557..763b4f573c8 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_table.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_table.sgml
@@ -86,9 +86,9 @@ CREATE [ [ GLOBAL | LOCAL ] { TEMPORARY | TEMP } | UNLOGGED ] TABLE [ IF NOT EXI
<phrase>and <replaceable class="parameter">partition_bound_spec</replaceable> is:</phrase>
-IN ( { <replaceable class="parameter">numeric_literal</replaceable> | <replaceable class="parameter">string_literal</replaceable> | NULL } [, ...] ) |
-FROM ( { <replaceable class="parameter">numeric_literal</replaceable> | <replaceable class="parameter">string_literal</replaceable> | MINVALUE | MAXVALUE } [, ...] )
- TO ( { <replaceable class="parameter">numeric_literal</replaceable> | <replaceable class="parameter">string_literal</replaceable> | MINVALUE | MAXVALUE } [, ...] ) |
+IN ( { <replaceable class="parameter">numeric_literal</replaceable> | <replaceable class="parameter">string_literal</replaceable> | TRUE | FALSE | NULL } [, ...] ) |
+FROM ( { <replaceable class="parameter">numeric_literal</replaceable> | <replaceable class="parameter">string_literal</replaceable> | TRUE | FALSE | MINVALUE | MAXVALUE } [, ...] )
+ TO ( { <replaceable class="parameter">numeric_literal</replaceable> | <replaceable class="parameter">string_literal</replaceable> | TRUE | FALSE | MINVALUE | MAXVALUE } [, ...] ) |
WITH ( MODULUS <replaceable class="parameter">numeric_literal</replaceable>, REMAINDER <replaceable class="parameter">numeric_literal</replaceable> )
<phrase><replaceable class="parameter">index_parameters</replaceable> in <literal>UNIQUE</literal>, <literal>PRIMARY KEY</literal>, and <literal>EXCLUDE</literal> constraints are:</phrase>