On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 05:33:33PM -0500, Jim C. Nasby wrote: > On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 11:07:35PM +0100, Simon Riggs wrote: > > PostgreSQL's functionality is in many ways similar to Oracle Partitioning. > > > > Loading up your data in many similar tables, then creating a view like: > > > > CREATE VIEW BIGTABLE (idate, col1, col2, col3...) AS > > SELECT 200409130800, col1, col2, col3... FROM table200409130800 > > UNION ALL > > SELECT 200409131000, col1, col2, col3... FROM table200409131000 > > UNION ALL > > SELECT 200409131200, col1, col2, col3... FROM table200409131200 > > ...etc... [...] > > Is there by any chance a set of functions to manage adding and removing > partitions? Certainly this can be done by hand, but having a set of > tools would make life much easier. I just looked but didn't see anything > on GBorg.
I've done a similar thing with time-segregated data by inheriting all the partition tables from an (empty) parent table. Adding a new partition is just a "create table tablefoo () inherits(bigtable)" and removing a partition just "drop table tablefoo". Cheers, Steve ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend
