This is a totally selfish question, but IF someone has a few minutes,
could he/she explain why table partitioning is such an important tool?
Thanks,
Sean
On Apr 7, 2005, at 8:06 AM, Richard Huxton wrote:
Dinesh Pandey wrote:
How can we create oracle's table with partition in Postgres. (How to
create
Table partion in postgres)
CREATE TABLE invoices
(invoice_no NUMBER NOT NULL, invoice_date DATE NOT NULL,
comments VARCHAR2(500))
PARTITION BY RANGE (invoice_date)
(PARTITION invoices_q1 VALUES LESS THAN (TO_DATE('01/04/2001',
'DD/MM/YYYY')) TABLESPACE users
By hand, I'm afraid (although I think people are looking into this
feature for version 8.1)
There's lots of discussion in the mail archives about how people are
handling this. You're basically looking at some combination of
- partial/conditional indexes
- unions
- inheritance
--
Richard Huxton
Archonet Ltd
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