Re: Partition with check constraint with "like" - Mailing list pgsql-performance
| From | Nagaraj Raj |
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| Subject | Re: Partition with check constraint with "like" |
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| Msg-id | 1954965228.496968.1621639708945@mail.yahoo.com Whole thread Raw |
| In response to | Re: Partition with check constraint with "like" (Nagaraj Raj <nagaraj.sf@yahoo.com>) |
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RE: Partition with check constraint with "like"
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| List | pgsql-performance |
Hi
I don’t discuss here the choice itself but this is not correct:
create table mytable_z of mytable for values from ('Z') to ('Z[');
It should be
create table mytable_z of mytable for values from ('Z') to ('[')
Michel SALAIS
De : Nagaraj Raj <nagaraj.sf@yahoo.com>
Envoyé : vendredi 21 mai 2021 18:39
À : David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>
Cc : Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>; Pgsql-performance <pgsql-performance@postgresql.org>
Objet : Re: Partition with check constraint with "like"
Hi David,
Hi,
I am trying to create partitions on the table which have around 2BIL records and users will always look for the "name", its not possible to create a partition with a list, so we are trying to create a partition-based first letter of the name column. name column has a combination of alpha numeric values.
> postgres=# select chr(ascii('z')+1) ;
> chr
> -----
> {
> (1 row)
I tried as below, I'm able to create a partition table for 'Z', but it's not identifying partition table.
postgres=# select chr(ascii('Z')+1) ;
chr
-----
[
(1 row)
create table mytable_z of mytable for values from ('Z') to ('Z[');
CREATE TABLE
insert into mytable values(4,'ZAR83NB');
ERROR: no partition of relation "mytable" found for row DETAIL: Partition key of the failing row contains (name) = (ZAR83NB). SQL state: 23514
On Friday, May 21, 2021, 01:24:13 AM PDT, David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, 21 May 2021 at 19:02, Nagaraj Raj <nagaraj.sf@yahoo.com> wrote:
> then what would be the range of Z
> FROM (Z) to (?) ;
postgres=# select chr(ascii('z')+1) ;
chr
-----
{
(1 row)
> same way for 9
postgres=# select chr(ascii('9')+1) ;
chr
-----
:
(1 row)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII
You can also use MINVALUE and MAXVALUE to mean unbounded at either end
of the range.
But is there a particular need that you want to partition this way? It
seems like it might be a bit painful to maintain, especially if you're
not limiting yourself to ASCII or ANSI characters.
You might want to consider HASH partitioning if you're just looking
for a way to keep your tables and indexes to a more manageable size.
You've not really mentioned your use case here, so it's hard to give
any advice.
There are more details about partitioning in
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/ddl-partitioning.html
David
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