Re: Define hash partition for certain column values - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Rob Sargent
Subject Re: Define hash partition for certain column values
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In response to Re: Define hash partition for certain column values  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On 1/12/21 8:51 AM, Голубева Яна wrote:
Values for the key partitioning column are generated randomly and I can't predict their distribution between ranges.
If I just create some ranges I won't have any guarantee that partitions will have similar amount of data. It is possible that I will have 2 or 3 extremely big partitions and a bit of data in others.
 
Thank you,
Iana Golubeva


12.01.2021, 17:55, "Michael Lewis" <mlewis@entrata.com>:
On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 1:21 AM Голубева Яна <ishsha@yandex.ru> wrote:
List or range partitioning isn't suitable for my case.
I am using a column of numeric(20) type as a base for partitioning. The values of the column are generated randomly. 
So there will be too many partitions if I use list partitioning as is.

Sorry, but why is range not suited for this? It would seem fairly trivial to create 50 or 1000 partitions to break up the range of values allowed by your field definition.
Doesn't sound like a good definition of random.

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