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Re: AUTO_INCREMENT and partitioning

 

The only solution is to make (id, added) a PK, because the partitioning
column must always belong to unique key, if there is such.
In your case I would change added type to DATETIME to avoid collision.

Regards

On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 2:10 PM Ghazi Btissam <btissam.ghazi@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> 1- I have a table with a unique key which is calculated by the
> AUTO_INCREMENT feature, and I need to range partition it using a date field
> , is it possible and/or how to do it?
>
> 2- Is there a way to implement sequences for the primary key (like it
> exists in Oracle) or the AUTO_INCREMENT is the only one in MariaDb?
>
> For example:
>
>  CREATE TABLE new (
>
>          id INT NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
>
>          name VARCHAR(50),
>
>         added DATE,
>
>          PRIMARY KEY (id),
>
>      )
>
>     PARTITION BY RANGE( TO_DAYS(added) )
>
>   ( PARTITION p0 VALUES LESS THAN (1990),
>
>    PARTITION p1 VALUES LESS THAN (2000),
>
>    PARTITION p2 VALUES LESS THAN MAXVALUE
>
> 	 ) ;
>
> Thanks
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