Re: [GENERAL] Partition Help

2015-04-30 Thread akshunj
Hi Jim, I'm not going the partitioning route because I want to, I'm just out of options at this point. As this table gets bigger, performance just gets worse over time. I wanted to try partitioning to see if it helps. Thanks for the tip, looking at the function again what you suggest makes

Re: [GENERAL] Partition Help

2015-04-30 Thread akshunj
Melvin, thanks. Syntax was indeed the problem there. Any idea how to pass the original query to the child table? My insert has 113 parameters passed in, but based on the constraint violations I am seeing, it seems they are not making. I suspect that: VALUE (NEW.*) does not pass in the original

[GENERAL] Partition Help

2015-04-29 Thread akshunj
Hi, I am trying to setup partitions and as a test, I was able to follow the example in the Postgres docs using the date as a condition. Now I am trying to partition on a column with the data type character varying. I want to partition based on an invoice ID consisting on letters and numbers