Allow NOT VALID foreign key constraints on partitioned tables
authorÁlvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Thu, 23 Jan 2025 14:54:38 +0000 (15:54 +0100)
committerÁlvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Thu, 23 Jan 2025 14:54:38 +0000 (15:54 +0100)
commitb663b9436e7509b5e73c8c372539f067cd6e66c1
treec1d90c3b46512b69ad0b482b399263ab38d2bfcb
parentb35434b134b1e1a306649a8c63c5c46afdcf7b1e
Allow NOT VALID foreign key constraints on partitioned tables

This feature was intentionally omitted when FKs were first implemented
for partitioned tables, and had been requested a few times; the
usefulness is clear.

Validation can happen for each partition individually, which is useful
to contain the number of locks held and the duration; or it can be
executed for the partitioning hierarchy as a single command, which
validates all child constraints that haven't been validated already.

This is also useful to implement NOT ENFORCED constraints on top.

Author: Amul Sul <sulamul@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAAJ_b96Bp=-ZwihPPtuaNX=SrZ0U6ZsXD3+fgARO0JuKa8v2jQ@mail.gmail.com
doc/src/sgml/ref/alter_table.sgml
src/backend/commands/tablecmds.c
src/test/regress/expected/foreign_key.out
src/test/regress/sql/foreign_key.sql