Re: Partitioning by month causing an error?

From: Ron <ronljohnsonjr(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: pgsql-admin(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Partitioning by month causing an error?
Date: 2019-12-21 02:24:44
Message-ID: ff56245a-1be6-fbc0-e60c-295c5adec50b@gmail.com
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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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