2011/4/25 Phoenix Kiula <phoenix.ki...@gmail.com>: > Hi. > > The partitioning documentation in PG is very clear on how to partition > a new table. Create child tables, and have triggers that manage > INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE commands. > > How about doing this with existing massive tables? (Over 120 million rows) > > I could create a new parent table with child tables, and then INSERT > all these millions of rows to put them into the right partition. But > is that recommended?
It will be faster to INSERT directly in the good child tables and you can make multiple INSERT in parrallel (depend of your IO system and number of tables) > > Thanks > > -- > Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) > To make changes to your subscription: > http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general > -- Cédric Villemain 2ndQuadrant http://2ndQuadrant.fr/ PostgreSQL : Expertise, Formation et Support -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
