When used on a partition containing foreign keys coming from one of its
ancestors, \d would (rather unhelpfully) print the details about the
pg_constraint row in the partition. This becomes a bit frustrating when
the user tries things like dropping the FK in the partition; instead,
show the details for the foreign key on the table where it is defined.
Also, when a table is referenced by a foreign key on a partitioned
table, we would show multiple "Referenced by" lines, one for each
partition, which gets unwieldy pretty fast. Modify that so that it
shows only one line for the ancestor partitioned table where the FK is
defined.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20181204143834.ym6euxxxi5aeqdpn@alvherre.pgsql
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane, Amit Langote, Peter Eisentraut
"fk_notpartitioned_pk_pkey" PRIMARY KEY, btree (a, b)
Referenced by:
TABLE "fk_partitioned_fk" CONSTRAINT "fk_partitioned_fk_a_b_fkey" FOREIGN KEY (a, b) REFERENCES fk_notpartitioned_pk(a, b)
ALTER TABLE fk_partitioned_fk DROP CONSTRAINT fk_partitioned_fk_a_b_fkey;
-- done.
DROP TABLE fk_notpartitioned_pk, fk_partitioned_fk;
@ -1795,7 +1807,7 @@ ALTER TABLE fk_partitioned_fk ATTACH PARTITION fk_partitioned_fk_2 FOR VALUES IN
a | integer | | |
Partition of: fk_partitioned_fk FOR VALUES IN (1500, 1502)
Foreign-key constraints:
"fk_partitioned_fk_2_a_b_fkey" FOREIGN KEY (a, b) REFERENCES fk_notpartitioned_pk(a, b) ON UPDATE CASCADE ON DELETE CASCADE
TABLE "fk_partitioned_fk" CONSTRAINT "fk_partitioned_fk_a_b_fkey" FOREIGN KEY (a, b) REFERENCES fk_notpartitioned_pk(a, b) ON UPDATE CASCADE ON DELETE CASCADE
DROP TABLE fk_partitioned_fk_2;
CREATE TABLE fk_partitioned_fk_4 (a int, b int, FOREIGN KEY (a, b) REFERENCES fk_notpartitioned_pk(a, b) ON UPDATE CASCADE ON DELETE CASCADE) PARTITION BY RANGE (b, a);
@ -1815,7 +1827,7 @@ ALTER TABLE fk_partitioned_fk ATTACH PARTITION fk_partitioned_fk_4 FOR VALUES IN
Partition of: fk_partitioned_fk FOR VALUES IN (3500, 3502)
Partition key: RANGE (b, a)
Foreign-key constraints:
"fk_partitioned_fk_4_a_b_fkey" FOREIGN KEY (a, b) REFERENCES fk_notpartitioned_pk(a, b) ON UPDATE CASCADE ON DELETE CASCADE
TABLE "fk_partitioned_fk" CONSTRAINT "fk_partitioned_fk_a_b_fkey" FOREIGN KEY (a, b) REFERENCES fk_notpartitioned_pk(a, b) ON UPDATE CASCADE ON DELETE CASCADE
Number of partitions: 2 (Use \d+ to list them.)
\d fk_partitioned_fk_4_1
@ -1826,7 +1838,7 @@ Number of partitions: 2 (Use \d+ to list them.)
b | integer | | |
Partition of: fk_partitioned_fk_4 FOR VALUES FROM (1, 1) TO (100, 100)
Foreign-key constraints:
"fk_partitioned_fk_4_a_b_fkey" FOREIGN KEY (a, b) REFERENCES fk_notpartitioned_pk(a, b) ON UPDATE CASCADE ON DELETE CASCADE
TABLE "fk_partitioned_fk" CONSTRAINT "fk_partitioned_fk_a_b_fkey" FOREIGN KEY (a, b) REFERENCES fk_notpartitioned_pk(a, b) ON UPDATE CASCADE ON DELETE CASCADE
-- this one has an FK with mismatched properties
\d fk_partitioned_fk_4_2
@ -1838,7 +1850,7 @@ Foreign-key constraints:
Partition of: fk_partitioned_fk_4 FOR VALUES FROM (100, 100) TO (1000, 1000)
Foreign-key constraints:
"fk_partitioned_fk_4_2_a_b_fkey" FOREIGN KEY (a, b) REFERENCES fk_notpartitioned_pk(a, b) ON UPDATE SET NULL
"fk_partitioned_fk_4_a_b_fkey" FOREIGN KEY (a, b) REFERENCES fk_notpartitioned_pk(a, b) ON UPDATE CASCADE ON DELETE CASCADE
TABLE "fk_partitioned_fk" CONSTRAINT "fk_partitioned_fk_a_b_fkey" FOREIGN KEY (a, b) REFERENCES fk_notpartitioned_pk(a, b) ON UPDATE CASCADE ON DELETE CASCADE
CREATE TABLE fk_partitioned_fk_5 (a int, b int,
FOREIGN KEY (a, b) REFERENCES fk_notpartitioned_pk(a, b) ON UPDATE CASCADE ON DELETE CASCADE DEFERRABLE,
@ -1862,7 +1874,7 @@ Partition key: RANGE (a)
Foreign-key constraints:
"fk_partitioned_fk_5_a_b_fkey" FOREIGN KEY (a, b) REFERENCES fk_notpartitioned_pk(a, b) ON UPDATE CASCADE ON DELETE CASCADE DEFERRABLE
"fk_partitioned_fk_5_a_b_fkey1" FOREIGN KEY (a, b) REFERENCES fk_notpartitioned_pk(a, b) MATCH FULL ON UPDATE CASCADE ON DELETE CASCADE
"fk_partitioned_fk_a_b_fkey" FOREIGN KEY (a, b) REFERENCES fk_notpartitioned_pk(a, b) ON UPDATE CASCADE ON DELETE CASCADE
TABLE "fk_partitioned_fk" CONSTRAINT "fk_partitioned_fk_a_b_fkey" FOREIGN KEY (a, b) REFERENCES fk_notpartitioned_pk(a, b) ON UPDATE CASCADE ON DELETE CASCADE
Number of partitions: 1 (Use \d+ to list them.)
-- verify that it works to reattaching a child with multiple candidate
@ -1878,9 +1890,9 @@ ALTER TABLE fk_partitioned_fk_5 ATTACH PARTITION fk_partitioned_fk_5_1 FOR VALUE
Partition of: fk_partitioned_fk_5 FOR VALUES FROM (0) TO (10)
Foreign-key constraints:
"fk_partitioned_fk_5_1_a_b_fkey" FOREIGN KEY (a, b) REFERENCES fk_notpartitioned_pk(a, b)
"fk_partitioned_fk_5_a_b_fkey" FOREIGN KEY (a, b) REFERENCES fk_notpartitioned_pk(a, b) ON UPDATE CASCADE ON DELETE CASCADE DEFERRABLE
"fk_partitioned_fk_5_a_b_fkey1" FOREIGN KEY (a, b) REFERENCES fk_notpartitioned_pk(a, b) MATCH FULL ON UPDATE CASCADE ON DELETE CASCADE
"fk_partitioned_fk_a_b_fkey" FOREIGN KEY (a, b) REFERENCES fk_notpartitioned_pk(a, b) ON UPDATE CASCADE ON DELETE CASCADE
TABLE "fk_partitioned_fk_5" CONSTRAINT "fk_partitioned_fk_5_a_b_fkey" FOREIGN KEY (a, b) REFERENCES fk_notpartitioned_pk(a, b) ON UPDATE CASCADE ON DELETE CASCADE DEFERRABLE
TABLE "fk_partitioned_fk_5" CONSTRAINT "fk_partitioned_fk_5_a_b_fkey1" FOREIGN KEY (a, b) REFERENCES fk_notpartitioned_pk(a, b) MATCH FULL ON UPDATE CASCADE ON DELETE CASCADE
TABLE "fk_partitioned_fk" CONSTRAINT "fk_partitioned_fk_a_b_fkey" FOREIGN KEY (a, b) REFERENCES fk_notpartitioned_pk(a, b) ON UPDATE CASCADE ON DELETE CASCADE
-- verify that attaching a table checks that the existing data satisfies the