Take a look at the set of partitioning functions I wrote shortly after the 8.1 release:
http://www.studenter.hb.se/~arch/files/part_functions.sql You could probably work something out using those functions (as-is, or as inspiration) together with pgAgent (http://www.pgadmin.org/docs/1.4/pgagent.html) /Mikael > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:pgsql-performance- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Arnau > Sent: den 5 januari 2007 12:02 > To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org > Subject: [PERFORM] Partitioning > > Hi all, > > I'm not sure if this question fits in the topic of this list. > > I'm interested in partitioning and it's the first time I'd use it. > There is an issue I don't know how you handle it. Lets say I'm > interested in store monthly based statistical data like the example of > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/static/ddl-partitioning.html. What I > don't like of this approach is that the monthly tables, rules... must be > created "manually" or at least I haven't found any other option. > > My question is how do you manage this? do you have a cron task that > creates automatically these monthly elements (tables, rules, ... ) or > there is another approach that doesn't require external things like cron > only PostgreSQL. > -- > Arnau > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match
