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Subject: Re: Partitioning Tables
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> On Feb 5, 2021, at 12:19 PM, Campbell, Lance <lance@illinois.edu> =
wrote:
>=20
> But it does not look like PostgreSQL supports referencing the parent =
tables for deciding what partition to put the data in

correct, I missed that in your first post