On Mon, Aug 08, 2022 at 03:45:11PM -0700, Slava Mudry wrote: > Postgres 14 improved partitioning quite a bit. I used it in Postgres 9 and > there was a lot of locking on partition hierarchy when you add/drop > partition tables. Note that postgres 9 didn't have native/declarative partitioning, and most improvements in native partitioning don't apply to legacy/inheritance partitioning. https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/ddl-partitioning.html "Native" partitioning added in v10 tends to require stronger locks for add/drop than legacy partitioning, since partitions have associated bounds, which cannot overlap. The locking is improved in v12 with CREATE+ATTACH and v14 with DETACH CONCURRENTLY+DROP. -- Justin
