From: Frank Hagstrom <frank.hagstrom@gmail.com>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Possible to use a table to tell what table to select from?
Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2005 22:32:31 +0200
Message-ID: <28b4448e05070813326d98e574@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
Hello
I've been thinking on a potential problem I might get in a distant
future, but once I started thinking on it I just as well had to
check...
Is it possible to have say ~ 6 tables, where the first one is a
'reference' to all the others (they all are with the same structure).
The other 5 or so have information stored in importance/access/age,
where one table will be only recent/important things, the other with a
bit lower priority and so on until the last table that can be really
huge and slow and used more like a storage ... Is it possible to write
an SQL query to let the first table figure out what table one will do
the actual select from?
like the pseudo code:
SELECT name,content FROM <some command> (SELECT tablename FROM table1
WHERE item_id="123456")
Or is this a totally pointless thing, as the first table would need to
be so large either way? (or only good for storing large blobs and
such?)
/Frank H
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