Re: partitioned lookup table? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Vick Khera
Subject Re: partitioned lookup table?
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In response to partitioned lookup table?  (Andreas Kretschmer <akretschmer@spamfence.net>)
Responses Re: partitioned lookup table?  (Andreas Kretschmer <akretschmer@spamfence.net>)
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On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 10:48 AM, Andreas Kretschmer
<akretschmer@spamfence.net> wrote:
> is it possible to partitionate a lookup-table? What i mean is:
>
> test=# create table foo(i int primary key);
> NOTICE:  CREATE TABLE / PRIMARY KEY will create implicit index "foo_pkey" for table "foo"
> CREATE TABLE
> test=*# create table bla ( i int references foo);

You can have FK references from a partitioned table, but not to the
table.  That is, you cannot have this FK reference since you are
partitioning foo.  You can mimic the FK tests by writing your own
triggers that have knowledge of how you split the table, but they will
not be as efficient as a built-in FK test.

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