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Get all partition names for a table

I want to list all the Partitions created by dynamic triggers in Postgresql 9.1 I was able to generate a count of partitions for tables which are partitioned using Frank Heikens' answer in ...
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Setting up a Postgresql Partition with foreign key

I have a Ubuntu 12.04 Server with PostgreSQL 9.1 installed. I am trying to setup Partitioning on a existing Postgres DB(say 'xyz') which has very huge tables and some have foreign keys set on them. ...
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Postgres 9.1 query plan not using check_constraints on partitions after large data load

I've created a table in Postgres 9.1 called 'markets' that contains data about a market in a specific US zip code. I've partitioned the data on the zip code column, using the first digit of the zip ...
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What is the modern way to partition PostgreSQL across machines, when the data is “naturally partitionable”

After several years of dwelling into the "NoSQL" space, now I have a problem that is quite "relational" in its nature. Today I see data stores with quite different eyes than before. Things like Riak ...
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Database archive solutions

In continuation to a question posted by me on Is it a good idea to move high-volume and highly-accessed tables to a separate database?, am looking out for different techniques/solutions available for ...
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PostgreSQL 9.1 - Query on VIEWS taking a lot of time

Using PostgreSQL 9.1, we are having problems while executing queries on a VIEW of PostgreSQL. Following is the situation: We have a partitioned Table "buz_scdr" over which we have built a VIEW ...
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What is the “Data partitioned, Shared-Nothing, Parallel Database” solution for PostgreSQL ?

I was looking for a open source parallel database solution. It seems Postgres-XC is a viable solution. However, I don't need the replication. In this case, is there any better solution towards read ...
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Rotate a table in PostgreSQL

Problem description I need to rotate (with DROP and CREATE) a table which is heavily used by other clients. At present, I have a program which replaces (DROP + CREATE) this table. Sometimes, just ...
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Triggers not being run on a partitioned table

I'm using PostgreSQL. I have a table that I have partitioned into three sub-tables - and as far as I can tell, this all works correctly. Rows are correctly inserted into the appropriate partition and ...
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Huge database logging of event type rows and ways to optimize it

We have a database that stores events. Events are generated at a 1000 per sec rate. We need to keep these events accessible for some years. Usual use of these events is selecting some of them from the ...
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PostgreSQL partitioning query performance inexplicably bad

I find this a bit mysterious. The cost of getting the maximum value out of just the partition parent table (which is empty) is very cheap: evlampts=# explain select max(timestamp) from only mcdata; ...
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Disk file effects of delete and vacuum

I have a very frequently updated table with 240 million rows (and growing). Every three hours 1.5 million rows are inserted and 1.5 million are deleted. When I moved the cluster to a SSD this bulk ...
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PostgreSQL partition hierarchy design for centralized logging

I am looking into setting up logging from all of my servers into a centralized postgresql database. It makes sense to be able to drop logs by date or by host, so I'd like to set it up with ...