Is It Good Practice That I use TableName-Month-Year Convention

From: Yan Cheng Cheok <yccheok(at)yahoo(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Is It Good Practice That I use TableName-Month-Year Convention
Date: 2010-01-13 08:16:38
Message-ID: 558771.51019.qm@web65703.mail.ac4.yahoo.com
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I realize the READ performance goes down dramatically when my table goes large. Every new day goes on, my table can increase x millions of new rows.

I was wondering whether this is good practice I can design my database in this way?

Instead of having

lot <-> unit <-> measurement

Can I have

lot-March-2010 <-> unit-March-2010 <-> measurement-March-2010
lot-April-2010 <-> unit-April-2010 <-> measurement-April-2010

(1) That's mean in my stored procedure, I need to dynamically generate the table name. Is this the "dynamic SQL" to correct way, to dynamically generate table name : http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/ecpg-dynamic.html

(2) Is this consider a good approach, to overcome speed problem (especially read speed). Any potential problem I should put an eye on, before I implement this strategy?

Thanks and Regards
Yan Cheng CHEOK

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