Re: Partition Table

Martin Gainty wrote:
> Good Afternoon All-
> I come from the other DBMS  from California where extremely large datasets could be partitioned into separate and
distinctpartition tables  
> Lets say for example I have Property Table which contains a tera worth of data and to gain performnce in the indexing
I*could* partition this table so that 
> All Cities which are A-M are in Partition1PropertyTable
> All Cities which are N-Z are in Parition2PropertyTable
> Can I achieve this in Postgres DB?

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/static/ddl-partitioning.html

Joshua D. Drake


> Thanks,
> Martin --
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