Hi,

On Tue, 14 Sep 2004 22:10:04 -0700
Steve Atkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> > Is there by any chance a set of functions to manage adding and removing
> > partitions? Certainly this can be done by hand, but having a set of
> > tools would make life much easier. I just looked but didn't see anything
> > on GBorg.
> 
> I've done a similar thing with time-segregated data by inheriting
> all the partition tables from an (empty) parent table.
> 
> Adding a new partition is just a "create table tablefoo () inherits(bigtable)"
> and removing a partition just "drop table tablefoo".

But you have to add table constraints restricting the time after adding
the partition?

Thanks,
Markus

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