Re: Smaller multiple tables or one large table?

Hi Benedict,

Il 15/06/12 20:58, Benedict Holland ha scritto:
> The tables would have to be specified with a table pk constraint
> falling between two ranges. A view would then be created to manage all
> of the small tables with triggers handling insert and update
> operations. Select would have to be view specific but that is really
> cheap compared to updates. That should have the additional benefit of
> only hitting a specific table(s) with an update.
>
> Basically, I don't see how this particular configuration breaks and if
> PostgreSQL already has the ability to do this as it seems very useful
> to manage very large data sets.

What you are looking for is called 'partitioning' (horizontal
partitioning). I suggest that you read this chapter:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/ddl-partitioning.html

Cheers,
Gabriele

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