Il giorno 18/feb/08, alle ore 18:42, Erik Jones ha scritto:
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> On Feb 18, 2008, at 11:23 AM, Enrico Sirola wrote:
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>> Il giorno 18/feb/08, alle ore 17:37, fdu.xiaojf@gmail.com ha scritto:
>>> 1) PostgreSQL only support partition by inheritance, and rules
>>> have to
>>> be created for each child table, this will result *a lot of* rules
>>> if
>>> the number of child tables is large.
>>>
>>> Are there some smart ways to avoid this kind of mass ?
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>> you can obtain the same result using a trigger, but you must
>> replace the trigger function every time you add/remove a partition.
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> This is not strictly true. If you use EXECUTE to run dynamically
> built INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE statements you don't have to replace the
> trigger each time.
oh sure, in that case you can, but I do the opposite way: dynamically
generate the trigger function with a plpgsql script at partition-
creation time :-)