On Jan 14, 2008, at 1:49 AM, Markus Schiltknecht wrote:
I don't think the separation into list, hash and range partitioning
is adequate. What is the system supposed to do, if you try to
insert a row which doesn't fit any of the values in your list or
doesn't fit any of the ranges you
On Jan 12, 2008, at 9:34 AM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
Well, with an extensible system such as PostgreSQL you will need to
have a
partitioning scheme that can deal with extensions. Perhaps people
want to
partition by XML, GIS, text-search data, or whatever someone might
come up
with in
into a single partition, so we wanted a
declarative syntax where it was relatively easy to check that range
and list specifications don't overlap.
kind regards,
Jeff Cohen
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On Jan 11, 2008, at 4:03 PM, Mike wrote:
Pardon my ignorance as I've never actually used partitioning before
but
plan to in the near future, but couldn't the grammar resemble a common
WHERE clause more closely?
Hi Mike,
Thanks for your suggestions. The current syntax we chose is
