Re: dropping a master table and all of its partitions?

From: George Nychis <gnychis(at)cmu(dot)edu>
To: Erik Jones <erik(at)myemma(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: dropping a master table and all of its partitions?
Date: 2007-02-27 01:39:11
Message-ID: 45E38BBF.7070502@cmu.edu
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Sure I can do that, but why is this happening? Is this normal behavior?

- George

Erik Jones wrote:
> Did you use some kind of sensical naming convention for the child
> tables? If so, couldn't you write a script to loop through and drop
> them one at a time?
>
> On Feb 26, 2007, at 6:42 PM, George Nychis wrote:
>
>> Hey everyone,
>>
>> I created a master table, and created ~2000 partitions for it.
>>
>> *no* data is in any of these partitions.
>>
>> I am trying to drop the master and all of the partitions with a cascade:
>> DROP TABLE master CASCADE;
>>
>> Except after about 30 seconds my memory usage (4GB) jumps to 99%, and
>> after about 10 minutes it kills over and drops my connection.
>>
>> How do you delete a master and all of its partitions?
>>
>> Thanks!
>> George
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