Re: TODO Request - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Jim C. Nasby
Subject Re: TODO Request
Date
Msg-id 20060830151808.GT73562@pervasive.com
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In response to TODO Request  ("Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>)
List pgsql-hackers
On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 03:53:57PM -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Can we get:
> 
> Multiple table indexes (for uniqueness across partitions for example)

Before any of the below happen, I think it'd be good to get a cleaner
way to define partitions; one that didn't involve manually messing with
constraints, etc.

> Auto creations of partitions

That would be nice, though if we had a built-in job facility of some
kind it wouldn't be needed for time-based partitioning.

> Hash partitioning
> Key partitioning
> Sub partitioning

Is there anything stopping those from being done right now? The only
thing I can think of that we're missing is an optimization where a
partition with a single key doesn't contain that key's data. Currently,
this can be done with "UNION VIEW partitioning", but perhaps there's
some more clever way to do it in the inheritance case.
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