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* Partitioning in postgres - basic question
@ 2007-10-04 17:51  Tore Lukashaugen <tore@lukashaugen.freeserve.co.uk>
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From: Tore Lukashaugen @ 2007-10-04 17:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Hi,

I am new to postgres having worked with Oracle in the past. I am interested 
in understanding Postgres's table partition functionality better. 
Specifically, I have a third party application running against my postgres 
database, but the database is becoming rather large to maintain. I am 
thinking about partitioning the biggest table.

Would I be able to set-up partitioning on this table with it being seemless 
to the third party app (assuming that it performs pretty standard DML 
statements against the table in question)?

Thanks
Tore 





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* Re: Partitioning in postgres - basic question
@ 2007-10-05 05:19  Chris <dmagick@gmail.com>
  parent: Tore Lukashaugen <tore@lukashaugen.freeserve.co.uk>
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From: Chris @ 2007-10-05 05:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Tore Lukashaugen <tore@lukashaugen.freeserve.co.uk>; +Cc: pgsql-performance

Tore Lukashaugen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am new to postgres having worked with Oracle in the past. I am interested 
> in understanding Postgres's table partition functionality better. 
> Specifically, I have a third party application running against my postgres 
> database, but the database is becoming rather large to maintain. I am 
> thinking about partitioning the biggest table.
> 
> Would I be able to set-up partitioning on this table with it being seemless 
> to the third party app (assuming that it performs pretty standard DML 
> statements against the table in question)?

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/static/ddl-partitioning.html#DDL-PARTITIONING-IMPLEMENTATION

The examples use rules but some on the list have said triggers work 
better if you have a lot of partitions.

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