On Oct 25, 2007, at 11:16 AM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> tfinneid@student.matnat.uio.no wrote:
>>> tfinneid@student.matnat.uio.no wrote:
>>>> Thats good enough for me, thats exactly what I want.
>>>
>>> In that case, why use partitions at all? They are simple
>>> independent
>>> tables.
>>
>> For two reasons,
>> - the data logically belongs together.
>> - because its more practical to create tables as childs of a
>> parent table
>> than as independent tables.
>> - changes to the table is applied to all partitions, and prohibits
>> tables with different dd.
>> - performing the create operation does not require the source
>> code to
>> contain the ddl of the parent table.
>
> You can use CREATE TABLE LIKE, which copies the definition but does
> not
> set the inheritance.
That won't propogate changes made later.
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