Re: Declarative partitioning - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Amit Langote
Subject Re: Declarative partitioning
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Msg-id 55D5997C.8040405@lab.ntt.co.jp
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In response to Re: Declarative partitioning  (Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>)
Responses Re: Declarative partitioning  (Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>)
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On 2015-08-20 AM 05:10, Josh Berkus wrote:
> On 08/19/2015 04:59 AM, Simon Riggs wrote:
>> I like the idea of a regular partitioning step because it is how you
>> design such tables - "lets use monthly partitions".
>>
>> This gives sanely terse syntax, rather than specifying pages and pages
>> of exact values in DDL....
>>
>>    PARTITION BY RANGE ON (columns) INCREMENT BY (INTERVAL '1 month' )
>> START WITH value;
> 
> Oh, I like that syntax!
> 
> How would it work if there were multiple columns?  Maybe we don't want
> to allow that for this form?
> 

Yea, we could simply restrict it to the single column case, which does not
sound like a major restriction.

Thanks,
Amit




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