Re: Question on partitioning

> Thanks to all who responded to my question on querying on cluster index
> names.
> I have another question. We are considering partitioning 2 or 3 of our
> larger tables.
> Each has 12 million or more rows. We want to partition on customer_id and
> build
> Primary key indexes on each of the children partitions which inherit column
> characteristics
> From the master table. This would resolve any issues about queries on
> customer-id.
> My question is this: How would I handle a query that queries
> On another Non-partitioned column, say, ENTRY_DATE? Could I design an index
> On the master table that would reference ENTRY-DATE across partitions or
> will
> I need to build indexes and queries on each partition?

I haven't done too much partitioning yet, but this is where I would start looking first:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/ddl-partitioning.html

Regards,

Richard Broersma Jr.