Re: Partition DB Tables by month

From: Dani Oderbolz <oderbolz(at)ecologic(dot)de>
To: Mendola Gaetano <mendola(at)bigfoot(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Partition DB Tables by month
Date: 2003-07-30 16:17:06
Message-ID: 3F27EF82.6060906@ecologic.de
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Mendola Gaetano wrote:

> CREATE TABLE foo (field_a
>
>field_b
>......
>fast_search BOOLEAN NOT NULL DEFAULT 1,
>time_stamp TIMESTAMPTZ NOT NULL DEFAULT now()
>);
>CREATE INDEX idx_fast_search ON foo ( fast_search ) where fast_search = 't';
>
>for each field to index:
>CREATE INDEX idx_field_a ON foo ( field_a ) where fast_search = 't';
>CREATE INDEX idx_field_b ON foo ( field_b ) where fast_search = 't';
>
>
>at the beginning of each month you can now do:
>
>UPDATE foo SET fast_search = 'f'
>WHERE time_stamp < now() AND
>fast_search = 't';
>
>
I guess we are missunderstanding each other.
I meant you were saying that you could have a partial index on a view
which does a Union All of may tables (each table contains a Month).
But I think thats really not possible.

Cheers,
Dani

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