Re: Question on partitioning

From: "Simon Riggs" <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: "Mark Steben" <msteben(at)autorevenue(dot)com>
Cc: <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Question on partitioning
Date: 2006-11-16 17:38:42
Message-ID: 1163698723.27956.554.camel@silverbirch.site
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On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 15:13 -0500, Mark Steben wrote:

> Regarding partitioning – I set up a testing table – parent table and 4
> partitioning children’s tables inheriting the
>
> Attributes of the parent. I inserted 1800 rows in all – 450 equitably
> in each partition. The CHECK constraints work great.
>
> The PART_ID column, defined as SMALLINT, Is the partitioning
> column.
>

You'll probably want to look at the caveats here
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/static/ddl-partitioning.html#DDL-PARTITIONING-CAVEATS

especially the ones about cross-datatype comparisons in CHECK
constraints.

--
Simon Riggs
EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com

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