Re: [postgis-users] Loading Tiger2007fe data - Thoughts on using inherited tables

2008-04-05 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
I had not seen this before, thanks! I seems from the discussion on this that it does not work with spatial data. I had the idea that it would be cool if each table kept its current bbox for the table and that if you were doing a query that it would only look at the tables with bboxes that over

Re: [postgis-users] Loading Tiger2007fe data - Thoughts on using inherited tables

2008-04-04 Thread Stephen Frost
* Paul Ramsey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Look at "constraint exclusion" as a strategy... Yes, certainly this approach will be taking advantage of constraint exclusion. > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/ddl-partitioning.html > > It actually *does* use inheritance, but it does fan

Re: [postgis-users] Loading Tiger2007fe data - Thoughts on using inherited tables

2008-04-04 Thread Paul Ramsey
Look at "constraint exclusion" as a strategy... http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/ddl-partitioning.html It actually *does* use inheritance, but it does fancy query re-writes too. P. On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 11:10 AM, Stephen Frost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Stephen, > > > * Stephe

Re: [postgis-users] Loading Tiger2007fe data - Thoughts on using inherited tables

2008-04-04 Thread Stephen Frost
Stephen, * Stephen Woodbridge ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Have look into using inherited tables? This would allow you to have a > nation view or a state view of the county data. View being used in the > literal not postgres in this case. Honestly, I havn't. I'm really not all that keen on i

[postgis-users] Loading Tiger2007fe data - Thoughts on using inherited tables

2008-04-04 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
Stephen, Changing the subject on this thread. Have look into using inherited tables? This would allow you to have a nation view or a state view of the county data. View being used in the literal not postgres in this case. create table us_tiger.blocks ; create table ST_tiger.blocks inher