Re: Partitioning attempts

> Try doing a select against mastertab and you will see that it only
> selects from the correct partitions. Look at constraint_exclusion
> parameter, which needs to be set on for this to work.

Ah - constraint_exclusion is the correct param, not enable_constraint_exclusion (as stated in http://www.bizgres.org/assets/docs/html/tblpartn.htm). Btw, does enabling constraint_exclusion come with some sort of penalty?

And what about these then? (as UPDATE rules for jan05 values):

create or replace rule "mastertab_update_jan05_values" as
on update to mastertab where (OLD.datecol between '20050101' and '20050131')
do instead update mastertab_jan05 set datecol = NEW.datecol where id = OLD.id;

create or replace rule "mastertab_jan05_update" as
on update to mastertab_jan05 where (NEW.datecol < '20050101' or NEW.datecol > '20050131')
do instead (
delete from mastertab_jan05 where id = OLD.id;
insert into mastertab (id, datecol) values (OLD.id, NEW.datecol);
)

Apart from the "ERROR: syntax error at end of input at character 196" message for the mastertab_jan05_update rule (this *should* be valid syntax according to the CREATE RULE synopsis?), that rule would delete the row from the child table and delegate to the mastertab INSERT rule to take care of insertion into the correct child table.

- Mikael