Re: Local parent table and Foreign table(s) as partition(s), is it possible?

From: Sbob <sbob(at)quadratum-braccas(dot)com>
To: Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at>, Pgsql-admin <pgsql-admin(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Local parent table and Foreign table(s) as partition(s), is it possible?
Date: 2022-09-14 18:17:34
Message-ID: 7e2b6998-d62c-0460-066d-dce9f238e5af@quadratum-braccas.com
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On 9/14/22 12:01, Laurenz Albe wrote:
> On Wed, 2022-09-14 at 11:41 -0600, Sbob wrote:
>> I see the below options in the CREATE FOREIGN TABLE, however I assume these would both connect
>> to a master/parent table on the foreign server. Is it possible to have a Foreign Table that
>> acts as a partition of a local parent table, via either method (INHERITS or PARTITION OF)?
> Yes, exactly: a foreign table can be a partition of a local partitioned table.
> This can be used to implement sharding, if the foreign data wrapper supports the "parallel append"
> node introduced in PostgreSQL v14.
>
> Yours,
> Laurenz Albe

Nice!  so do I simply use the INHERITS clause or the PARTITION OF clause
when I create the foreign table and reference the local parent table?

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