Re: Partitioning

Take a look at the set of partitioning functions I wrote shortly after
the 8.1 release:

http://www.studenter.hb.se/~arch/files/part_functions.sql

You could probably work something out using those functions (as-is, or
as inspiration) together with pgAgent
(http://www.pgadmin.org/docs/1.4/pgagent.html)

/Mikael

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> owner(at)postgresql(dot)org] On Behalf Of Arnau
> Sent: den 5 januari 2007 12:02
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> Subject: [PERFORM] Partitioning
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm not sure if this question fits in the topic of this list.
>
> I'm interested in partitioning and it's the first time I'd use it.
> There is an issue I don't know how you handle it. Lets say I'm
> interested in store monthly based statistical data like the example of
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/static/ddl-partitioning.html. What
I
> don't like of this approach is that the monthly tables, rules... must
be
> created "manually" or at least I haven't found any other option.
>
> My question is how do you manage this? do you have a cron task that
> creates automatically these monthly elements (tables, rules, ... ) or
> there is another approach that doesn't require external things like
cron
> only PostgreSQL.
> --
> Arnau
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