Yes, Marc – I understood you properly and totally. I was just saying about the hope that there is a trick to keep constraints on the base table level for my case.
Thanks a bunch. Andrew. On Tue, Mar 01, 2022 at 9:00 PM Marc Millas <marc.mil...@mokadb.com> wrote: Andrew, contrary to Oracle, in postgres you can add the indexes and/or the constraints which are meaningful to you at partition level. I was not saying NOT to create keys, but I was saying to create them at partition level. Marc MILLAS Senior Architect +33607850334 www.mokadb.com <http://www.mokadb.com> On Tue, Mar 1, 2022 at 5:45 PM Andrew Zakharov <andrew...@mail.ru <mailto:andrew...@mail.ru> > wrote: Hi Marc – Since there is a DWH fed by ETL there no risks to have same gids in different region partitions. I considered simple partitioned table w/o any keys but I’d believed there is a solutions with keys that’s why I’m seeking the clue. Thanks. Andrew. From: Marc Millas <marc.mil...@mokadb.com <mailto:marc.mil...@mokadb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2022 7:29 PM To: Andrew Zakharov <andrew...@mail.ru <mailto:andrew...@mail.ru> > Cc: pgsql-performance@lists.postgresql.org <mailto:pgsql-performance@lists.postgresql.org> Subject: Re: Simple task with partitioning which I can't realize Hi, is there any chance (risk ?) that a given gid be present in more than one region ? if not (or if you implement it via a dedicated, non partition table), you may create a simple table partitioned by region, and create unique indexes for each partition. this is NOT equivalent to a unique constraint at global table level, of course. Marc MILLAS Senior Architect +33607850334 www.mokadb.com <http://www.mokadb.com> On Tue, Mar 1, 2022 at 4:37 PM Andrew Zakharov <andrew...@mail.ru <mailto:andrew...@mail.ru> > wrote: Hello all – I have a task which is simple at the first look. I have a table which contains hierarchy of address objects starting with macro region end ends with particular buildings. You can imagine how big is it. Here is short sample of table declaration: create table region_hierarchy( gid uuid not null default uuid_generate_v1mc(), parent_gid uuid null, region_code int2, … constraint pk_region_hierarchy primary key (gid), constraint fk_region_hierarchy_region_hierarchy_parent foreign key (parent_gid) references region_hierarchy(gid) ); Being an Oracle specialist, I planned to using same declarative partitioning by list on the region_code field as I did in Oracle database. I’ve carefully looked thru docs/faqs/google/communities and found out that I must include “gid” field into partition key because a primary key field. Thus partition method “by list” is not appropriate method in this case and “by range” either. What I have left from partition methods? Hash? How can I create partitions by gid & region_code by hash? Feasible? Will it be working properly (with partition pruning) when search criteria is by region_code only? Same problem appears when there is simple serial “id” used as primary identifier. Removing all constraints is not considered. I understand that such specific PostgreSQL partitioning implementation has done by tons of reasons but how I can implement partitioning for my EASY case? I see the only legacy inheritance is left, right? Very sad if it’s true. Your advices are very important. Thanks in advance. Andrew.