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From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Dave Johansen <davejohansen@gmail.com>
Cc: Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>
Cc: Jeff Janes <jeff.janes@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance <pgsql-performance@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Recommendations for partitioning?
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 12:59:54 -0300
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Dave Johansen escribió:
> On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 10:27 AM, Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>wrote:

> > That's pretty much it. What I did was to create the new month table
> > and day tables, alter my triggers to reflect this, then move the data
> > with insert into / select from query for each old day partition. Then
> > once their data is moved you can just drop them. Since you changed the
> > triggers first those tables are no long taking input so it's usually
> > safe to drop them now.
> 
> It would be nice if there was just a "move command", but that seems like
> the type of model that we want and we'll probably move to that.

Eh.  Why can't you just do something like

WITH moved AS (
	DELETE FROM src WHERE ..
	RETURNING *
) INSERT INTO dst SELECT * FROM moved;

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Álvaro Herrera                http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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