From: | "John Lister" <john(dot)lister-ps(at)kickstone(dot)com> |
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To: | <pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Partitioning by letter question |
Date: | 2010-01-30 15:04:34 |
Message-ID: | 855BA0CC16444AAAA11F11E6082B510A@squarepi.com |
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><john(dot)lister-ps(at)kickstone(dot)com> wrote:
>> Hi, I was wondering if this was possible. I'm trying to partition a
table,
>> which is straightforward enough thanks to the great documentation, but i
>> have a question:
>>
>> If I partition using something like a product_id for example and have
>> check
>> constraints such as (id>=1000 and id<2000) then everything is fine and
>> the
>> planner correctly uses the right subset of the tables. However I would
>> like
>> to partition by the first letter and using something like this
>> substr(word,1,1)='a' is ignored by the planner. From reading the docs I
>> understand that complicated check constraints are ignored, but this
>> doesn't
>> seem overly complicated.
>>
>> Am i doing something wrong or is there another better way to do this
>Have you tried:
>(word >= 'a' and word <'b')
Cheers, had my programming head on. One question:
any ideas about what to put for the last in the list
i thought something like (word>='z' and word<'{') which is based on the
ascii ordering. - my db is using utf8
I tried to check this by doing
select * from words where word >'zzzz' order by word limit 10;
which returns '.' as the first result (ok not a word, but that is a
different issue) but if i do
select * from words where word <'.' order by word desc limit 10
I get '/...' as the first result, I would expect 'zzzz', this doesn't seem
consistent.
I'm obviously missing some inherent sorting behaviour her, but not sure..
Thanks
John
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