RE: pg12 - partition by column that might have null values

2019-10-02 Thread Mike Sofen
>but the start time doesnt indicates that the object is the most recent, it >just indicates when the object was added to your table… >on each partition I'll create range partition on the end_date so that I can >search for revisions faster. I believe you are confusing data storage with que

Re: pg12 - partition by column that might have null values

2019-10-02 Thread Mariel Cherkassky
but the start time doesnt indicates that the object is the most recent, it just indicates when the object was added to your table. If your queries involve the start_time I can understand why u set it as a partition column, otherwise is isnt useful. In most of my queries I query by one of 2 options

RE: pg12 - partition by column that might have null values

2019-10-02 Thread Mike Sofen
From: Mariel Cherkassky Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2019 12:37 AM Whenever I have a new revision of that object, I update the end_time of the latest revision to be now() and I add a new record of that object with end_date null. The null value is used to find most recent revisions of objects..

Re: pg12 - partition by column that might have null values

2019-10-02 Thread Mariel Cherkassky
Whenever I have a new revision of that object, I update the end_time of the latest revision to be now() and I add a new record of that object with end_date null. The null value is used to find most recent revisions of objects.. Thanks for the suggestion of infinity ! I'll try it.

Re: pg12 - partition by column that might have null values

2019-10-02 Thread Laurenz Albe
Mariel Cherkassky wrote: > In PG12 I'm trying to create partitions by range on a date column > that might be null (indicates it is the most recent version of the > object). My PK has to include the partition column, therefore I'm > getting an error that I cant create a primary key with the specific