Re: Partitioning by month causing an error?

What's the:

- Pg version number
- exact error message
- definition of mmd
- example statement that fails

On 12/20/19 8:32 PM, Wells Oliver wrote:
> mmd has a PARTITION BY RANGE on a date column.
>
> On Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 6:24 PM Ron <ronljohnsonjr(at)gmail(dot)com
> <mailto:ronljohnsonjr(at)gmail(dot)com>> wrote:
>
> On 12/20/19 6:49 PM, Wells Oliver wrote:
> > I have a partition per each month, like this:
> >
> > CREATE TABLE mmd_yr2019_3 PARTITION OF mmd FOR VALUES FROM
> ('2019-03-01')
> > TO ('2019-03-31');
> > CREATE TABLE mmd_yr2019_4 PARTITION OF mmd FOR VALUES FROM
> ('2019-04-01')
> > TO ('2019-04-30');
> >
> > This breaks for dates at the end of the month. What's the better way to
> > write the bounds? 3/1 to 4/1 and then 4/1 to 5/1? Does that cause some
> > overlap issue?
>
> What is the mmd data type?  I ask that because '2019-03-31' is really
> '2019-03-31 00:00:00.000', so there's nowhere for '2019-03-31
> 00:00:00.001'
> through '2019-03-31 23:59:59.999' to go.  (And don't forget timezones.)
>
>

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