Re: pgbench - allow to create partitioned tables

Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>

From: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Fabien COELHO <coelho@cri.ensmp.fr>, Asif Rehman <asifr.rehman@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL Developers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2019-09-28T05:19:28Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Fri, Sep 27, 2019 at 7:05 PM Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
>
> On 2019-Sep-27, Amit Kapila wrote:
>
> > The other thing is that the query used in patch to fetch partition
> > information seems correct to me, but maybe there is a better way to
> > get that information.
>
> I hadn't looked at that, but yeah it seems that it should be using
> pg_partition_tree().
>

I think we might also need to use pg_get_partkeydef along with
pg_partition_tree to fetch the partition method information.  However,
I think to find reloid of pgbench_accounts in the current search path,
we might need to use some part of query constructed by Fabien.

Fabien, what do you think about Alvaro's suggestion?

-- 
With Regards,
Amit Kapila.
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com



Commits

  1. pgbench: add --partitions and --partition-method options.