Re: Syntax for partitioning - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Dimitri Fontaine
Subject Re: Syntax for partitioning
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In response to Re: Syntax for partitioning  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:
> to match the desired granularity of data removal.  I don't really see
> any way that the database can be expected to know what that is, unless
> it's told in advance.  So AFAICS you really have to have a declarative
> way of telling it how to do the partitioning --- it's not going to be
> able to infer that automatically.

Yes, I'm taking that back. Declarative is not the same thing as explicit
partitioning though, that "index" like physical map is declarative too,
e.g.

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Dimitri Fontaine
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