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    help on partitioning

    I recently made a booboo and made a table with 16 hash partitions instead of 12, now I want to delete these extra 4 partitions but keep the data.

    I thought I might be able to just select the data in those partitions out, drop the partitions and then insert the data and the has partitioning would sort itself out - but I can't drop a hashed partition.

    So I then thought I would use ctas to create a new table and then drop the old table and rename the new one but I have so many referential constraints, I would have to go disable them temporarily

    Does anyone have a better option or am I going to have to use the drop and disable my constrints method.

    This is all on 9.2.0.4

    Cheers

    Dave

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    You definately have to recreate the table, so you'll have to deal with those pesky constraints etc.

    However, 16 is a good number of hash partitions (ie., it's an integer power of two). Why the preference for 12?
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    well we create the partitions in there own tablespaces - and a tablespace per filesystem (or a factor of 2 per filesystem) - so in this case 12 filesystems so 12 partitions.

    we normally do them in powers of 2 - but this customer had to be different (i.e 2 4 8 16 or 32)

    That fact that I got 16 partitions means tablespaces 1-4 are twice as full as the other ones, this isnt a problem in itself but I like to keep everything in sync with each other and have them the same size.

    The sizings for the tablespaces are also fairly exact so dont want 1-4 to blow up early

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    Try exchange partitions...
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    For you windont guys...
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