Ok I tried what Laurent had suggested and now the error is: Insufficient columns in PRIMARY KEY constraint definition. Now, the attribute the devs want is not a key value in the original table, but if it were that wouldn’t make a great deal of sense for a partition. So, now why did it gripe? Sent from my iPad > On Oct 30, 2020, at 1:07 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > John Scalia <jayknowsunix@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> I have a PostgreSQL server version 11.3 that my devs are asking for some partitioned tables. I can’t seem to get the syntax correct though. My SQL code is: > >> CREATE TABLE schema.temp_table >> AS (SELECT * FROM schema.original_table) >> PARTITION BY LIST(attribute_name); > > You can't create and populate a partitioned table in one command; you have > to create some partitions before you can load data into it. > > I believe you could use CREATE TABLE temp_table (LIKE original_table) > PARTITION BY LIST(attribute_name) to avoid manually repeating the > column list. Check the docs to see which other LIKE options you want > to use. > > regards, tom lane
