Partitioning syntax

From: Takahiro Itagaki <itagaki(dot)takahiro(at)oss(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Partitioning syntax
Date: 2010-01-14 09:13:23
Message-ID: 20100114181323.9A33.52131E4D@oss.ntt.co.jp
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Here is a revised partitioning syntax patch. It implements only syntax and
on-disk structure mentioned below:
Table Partitioning#Syntax
http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Table_partitioning#Syntax
Table Partitioning#On-disk structure
http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Table_partitioning#On-disk_structure

What we can do with the patch is src/test/regress/sql/partition.sql.
Note that the patch does nothing about INSERTs; triggers are still needed.

The main syntax is CREATE TABLE () PARTITION BY {RANGE | LIST} (...).
The reason I use it rather than "PARTITIONED BY" is for compatibility
to other DBMSs; Oracle and MySQL.

Changes from the previous CommitFest are:
- Additinal regression tests:
1000 partitions, error cases and boolean partitions
- Use pg_inherits_parent_index index if available.
- Sort not only range partitions but also list partitions
for stable display order.
- Remove ALTER PARTITION and DROP PARTITION syntax because
they are just synonyms of ALTER TABLE and DROP TABLE.

Regards,
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Takahiro Itagaki
NTT Open Source Software Center

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