On 19 August 2015 at 21:10, Josh Berkus <j...@agliodbs.com> wrote: > On 08/19/2015 04:59 AM, Simon Riggs wrote: > > I like the idea of a regular partitioning step because it is how you > > design such tables - "lets use monthly partitions". > > > > This gives sanely terse syntax, rather than specifying pages and pages > > of exact values in DDL.... > > > > PARTITION BY RANGE ON (columns) INCREMENT BY (INTERVAL '1 month' ) > > START WITH value; > > Oh, I like that syntax! > > How would it work if there were multiple columns? Maybe we don't want > to allow that for this form? >
If we went with that, and had: CREATE TABLE orders (order_id serial, order_date date, item text) PARTITION BY RANGE ON (order_date) INCREMENT BY (INTERVAL '1 month') START WITH '2015-01-01'; Where would the following go? INSERT INTO orders (order_date, item) VALUES ('2014-11-12', 'Old item'); Would there automatically be an "others" partition? Or would it produce an error and act like a constraint? Thom