Hello.
When I discovered the wonders of partitioning I quickly jumped on-board.
I had big tables used for statistics and a split was needed.
I created the parent, I linked the big table with this new parent and I
added other childs, per month.
Example:
new_stats - parent (empty)
old_stats - child, no CHECK
stats_2012_04 - child, with CHECK
stats_2012_05 - child, with CHECK
The old_stats is so big that I cannot afford to add a check constraint.
But, I know that all values of the itime field are before 2012_04, so,
would be great if I could run something like:
ALTER TABLE old_stats ADD CONSTRAINT xxx CHECK (itime < 2012_04_timestamp)
FORCE;
Of course I can create an index concurrently and then add constraint using
"USING INDEX", but this means a scan of the big table.
I never looked at PostgreSQL sources, but the commit
Enable CHECK constraints to be declared NOT VALID
http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=commit;h=897795240cfaaed724af2f53ed2c50c9862f951f
inspired me to dive.
Is PostgreSQL's team willing to accept such a feature?
Thank you for your time!
(Please keep me on cc)
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