On Wed, 2022-09-14 at 12:17 -0600, Sbob wrote:
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> On 9/14/22 12:01, Laurenz Albe wrote:
> > On Wed, 2022-09-14 at 11:41 -0600, Sbob wrote:
> > > I see the below options in the CREATE FOREIGN TABLE, however I assume these would both connect
> > > to a master/parent table on the foreign server. Is it possible to have a Foreign Table that
> > > acts as a partition of a local parent table, via either method (INHERITS or PARTITION OF)?
> > Yes, exactly: a foreign table can be a partition of a local partitioned table.
> > This can be used to implement sharding, if the foreign data wrapper supports the "parallel append"
> > node introduced in PostgreSQL v14.
>
> Nice! so do I simply use the INHERITS clause or the PARTITION OF clause
> when I create the foreign table and reference the local parent table?
Precisely. Use declarative partitioning rather than inheritance.
Yours,
Laurenz Albe
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