Ok I tried what Laurent had suggested and now the error is:
Insufficient columns in PRIMARY KEY constraint definition.
Now, the attribute the devs want is not a key value in the original table, but if it were that wouldn’t make a great
dealof sense for a partition. So, now why did it gripe?
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> On Oct 30, 2020, at 1:07 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>
> John Scalia <jayknowsunix@gmail.com> writes:
>> I have a PostgreSQL server version 11.3 that my devs are asking for some partitioned tables. I can’t seem to get the
syntaxcorrect though. My SQL code is:
>
>> CREATE TABLE schema.temp_table
>> AS (SELECT * FROM schema.original_table)
>> PARTITION BY LIST(attribute_name);
>
> You can't create and populate a partitioned table in one command; you have
> to create some partitions before you can load data into it.
>
> I believe you could use CREATE TABLE temp_table (LIKE original_table)
> PARTITION BY LIST(attribute_name) to avoid manually repeating the
> column list. Check the docs to see which other LIKE options you want
> to use.
>
> regards, tom lane