Re: SQL - planet redundant data

On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 07:58:55PM -0800, Poul Jensen wrote:
> This novice must be missing a sneaky way to avoid massive redundancy and
> still maintain easy access. I've been suggested to look at inheritance
> and foreign keys. Foreign keys I don't see how to use, but I could make

What you seem to be looking for is a form of partitioning. PostgreSQL
doesn't currently support partitioning of this form, but there's work in
progress to change that.

As someone else mentioned, you could do it with a union all view.
http://cvs.distributed.net/viewcvs.cgi/stats-sql/logdb/ has an example
of this.
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