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Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 15:31:24 -0400
From: Joshua Gooding <JGooding@ttitech.net>
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Subject: Re: question about partitioning
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I think I replied to the individual and not to the list before....

As of right now size doesn't matter, I need to partition it via a date.  
10 partitions, 10 weeks worth of data.

I was thinking of partitioning it off every 32GB of data, but that is 
not exactly what I am looking to do.

Joshua Gooding


On 6/24/2010 11:06 AM, Jasen Betts wrote:
> On 2010-06-24, Joshua Gooding<JGooding@ttitech.net>  wrote:
>    
>> Right now I am in the process of migrating an Oracle DB over to Postgres
>> 8.4.3.  The table is partitioned by size.  Is there anyway to partition
>> the new postgres table by size?  I created some partitions for the new
>> table, but I didn't give postgres any rules to partition by, so I have
>> 250M test records in one table.  Any ideas or thoughts on how to build
>> the rules for the table by size would be greatly appreciated.
>>      
> by size of what?
>
>