Re: dropping a master table and all of its partitions?

I tend to forget the important details ;)

gnychis@sn001:~$ psql --version
psql (PostgreSQL) 8.1.8
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gnychis@sn001:~$ uname -a
Linux sn001 2.6.17-10-server #2 SMP Tue Dec 5 21:17:26 UTC 2006 x86_64
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- George


Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> George Nychis wrote:
>> Sure I can do that, but why is this happening?  Is this normal behavior?
>
> Well that is the better question. If it is indeed doing what you say it
> is doing, I would say it is a bug. However you have not mentioned
> several important items, like what postgresql version you are running.
>
> Joshua D. Drake
>
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>> - George
>>
>>
>> Erik Jones wrote:
>>> Did you use some kind of sensical naming convention for the child
>>> tables?  If so, couldn't you write a script to loop through and drop
>>> them one at a time?
>>>
>>> On Feb 26, 2007, at 6:42 PM, George Nychis wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hey everyone,
>>>>
>>>> I created a master table, and created ~2000 partitions for it.
>>>>
>>>> *no* data is in any of these partitions.
>>>>
>>>> I am trying to drop the master and all of the partitions with a cascade:
>>>> DROP TABLE master CASCADE;
>>>>
>>>> Except after about 30 seconds my memory usage (4GB) jumps to 99%, and
>>>> after about 10 minutes it kills over and drops my connection.
>>>>
>>>> How do you delete a master and all of its partitions?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks!
>>>> George
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