From: John Scalia <jayknowsunix@gmail.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: pgsql-admin <pgsql-admin@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Creating a partition table
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2020 13:40:21 -0400
Message-ID: <72BCF3AA-1931-4BD9-A00D-497B3C2553E2@gmail.com> (raw)
Well, originally my code had a WITH NO DATA before the PARTITION BY clause, but that was error in as well, but thinking that I would just get structure of the table that way, the error didn’t make any sense.
I’ll try Laurenz’s code example and see what happens.
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> On Oct 30, 2020, at 1:07 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>
> John Scalia <jayknowsunix@gmail.com> writes:
>> I have a PostgreSQL server version 11.3 that my devs are asking for some partitioned tables. I can’t seem to get the syntax correct though. My SQL code is:
>
>> CREATE TABLE schema.temp_table
>> AS (SELECT * FROM schema.original_table)
>> PARTITION BY LIST(attribute_name);
>
> You can't create and populate a partitioned table in one command; you have
> to create some partitions before you can load data into it.
>
> I believe you could use CREATE TABLE temp_table (LIKE original_table)
> PARTITION BY LIST(attribute_name) to avoid manually repeating the
> column list. Check the docs to see which other LIKE options you want
> to use.
>
> regards, tom lane
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