On Fri, Nov 9, 2018 at 1:03 AM Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> On 2018-Nov-07, Amit Langote wrote:
>
> > I think the result in this case should be an error, just as it would in
> > the regular inheritance case.
> >
> > create table parent (a text);
> > create table child (a text collate "en_US") inherits (parent);
> > NOTICE: merging column "a" with inherited definition
> > ERROR: column "a" has a collation conflict
> > DETAIL: "default" versus "en_US"
> >
> > In fact, I see that ATTACH PARTITION rejects a partition if collations
> > don't match.
>
> Hmm, I'm thinking perhaps we shouldn't backpatch this part. It's
> obviously a bug, but we might break somebody's working apps. Therefore
> I think I'd rather leave it out of the current bugfix and commit
> separately.
Okay, that may be fine because nothing wrong is happening by silently
ignoring the partition's specified collation.
Thanks,
Amit
