On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 15:13 -0500, Mark Steben wrote:
> Regarding partitioning – I set up a testing table – parent table and 4
> partitioning children’s tables inheriting the
>
> Attributes of the parent. I inserted 1800 rows in all – 450 equitably
> in each partition. The CHECK constraints work great.
>
> The PART_ID column, defined as SMALLINT, Is the partitioning
> column.
>
You'll probably want to look at the caveats here
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/static/ddl-partitioning.html#DDL-PARTITIONING-CAVEATS
especially the ones about cross-datatype comparisons in CHECK
constraints.
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Simon Riggs
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