"Tom Lane" <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote in message
news:27503.991845186@sss.pgh.pa.us...
> "Nick Fankhauser" <nickf@ontko.com> writes:
> > Does PostgreSQL support (or some day will support) "partitioned tables"?
>
> It's not on anyone's radar screen AFAIK.
>
> > Alternately, does anyone have an idea about how to address this need in
a
> > different way using existing tools?
>
> Make a view that's a UNION of the component tables, plus rules that
> cause inserts to go into the appropriate components.
Tried this in 7.1.2, but it returns ERROR: "Views on unions not
implemented."
> regards, tom lane
