Re: table partitioning

Hi Gene,

> I'm using a cron job which creates a new partition table every night at
> midnight. After I create the table, I update the rule on the parent
> table so that new records go into the new partition table. Then I update
> the constraints on the tables so that constraint exclusion works. I'm
> doing it this way because you'll find if you have multiple rules on the
> parent table it might not return the proper result for the number of
> affected rows (might not be an issue for you). If you don't need to do
> it like this, just create a script that creates all the tables ahead of
> time. for year-month shouldn't be too many.

Thanks for the info. I think I'll have to use a similar method - it's
for a web-app with quite non-static data.

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