Splitting one big table into smaller ones

I've got a big table of measures like that:

CREATE TABLE measures (
stationCode varchar(8),
when datetime,
value float,
quality char,
PRIMARY KEY (stationCode, when)
);

Each station (identified by stationCode) could have up to 10**6 measures. So I
want to split it into smaller tables to increase perfomance :

CREATE TABLE measures<1st stationCode> (
when datetime,
value float,
quality char,
PRIMARY KEY (when)
);
CREATE TABLE measures<2nd stationCode> (
... and so on.

Is there a way to handle that using SQL and PL/pgSQL languages ?

Thanks,

Guillaume Perréal
Stagiaire MIAG
Cemagref - URH
France