From: | "Brett W(dot) McCoy" <bmccoy(at)lan2wan(dot)com> |
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To: | Stuart Rison <stuart(at)ludwig(dot)ucl(dot)ac(dot)uk> |
Cc: | pgsql-sql(at)postgreSQL(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: [SQL] How to split very long tables? |
Date: | 1998-07-06 13:59:03 |
Message-ID: | Pine.BSI.3.91.980706095631.19636C-100000@access1.lan2wan.com |
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On Mon, 6 Jul 1998, Stuart Rison wrote:
> I am using postgreSQL to matain a database of breast cancer patient data.
> I have create a hugely long (i.e. many columns) table and it is becoming
> unmanageable (I can't get the whole of it on screen, some queries appear to
> exceed the maximum string length etc.)
>
> How do you 'split' a long table without adding excessive redundency? Is it
> OK to just cut the table up and use the same primary key?
Is it possible to normalize your table, and build up a set of relations
between the tables? If not, you may want to break your tables down into
years (I do this for some data), and just treat each year as a discrete
set. You may be able to do a join between views to use the tables as a
single set of data, but then you are right back where you started with
too much data. How many rows are in this table?
Brett W. McCoy
http://www.lan2wan.com/~bmccoy
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