Re: On partitioning

On 12/12/14, 3:48 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 4:28 PM, Jim Nasby <Jim(dot)Nasby(at)bluetreble(dot)com> wrote:
>>> Sure. Mind you, I'm not proposing that the syntax I just mooted is
>>> actually for the best. What I'm saying is that we need to talk about
>>> it.
>>
>> Frankly, if we're going to require users to explicitly define each partition
>> then I think the most appropriate API would be a function. Users will be
>> writing code to create new partitions as needed, and it's generally easier
>> to write code that calls a function as opposed to glomming a text string
>> together and passing that to EXECUTE.
>
> I have very little idea what the API you're imagining would actually
> look like from this description, but it sounds like a terrible idea.
> We don't want to make this infinitely general. We need a *fast* way
> to go from a value (or list of values, one per partitioning column) to
> a partition OID, and the way to get there is not to call arbitrary
> user code.

You were talking about the syntax for partition creation/definition; that's the API I was referring to.
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