Re: Partitioning documentation example - Mailing list pgsql-docs

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Partitioning documentation example
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Msg-id 200801041654.m04GsmD17385@momjian.us
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In response to Re: Partitioning documentation example  (Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>)
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Simon Riggs wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 10:27 -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> > It seems to me it would be much clearer if we added a second example
> > that used to_char() to create the INSERT statement dynamically based on
> > NEW.logdate:
> >
> >     CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION measurement_insert_trigger()
> >     RETURNS TRIGGER AS $$
> >     BEGIN
> >        EXECUTE 'INSERT INTO measurement_y' || to_char(NEW.logdate,'YYYY_mMM') || ' VALUES (NEW.*)';
> >     END;
> >     $$
> >     LANGUAGE plpgsql;
> >
> > It will of course fail if the table does not exist, which I think is
> > what we want.  This trigger function would not have to be modified when
> > new tables are added.
>
> I like your new trigger better than the old, but I am still
> uncomfortable with recommending we use triggers with COPY for
> performance reasons and we should add a caveat.

OK, I will add this example in addition to the examples already present.

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