Partitionable

This gem adds support for using the PostgreSQL partitioning mechanism describe here.

Usage

Partitionable assumes the model you want to partition has a date attribute which will be used for checking the partitions constraints and triggers.

Example

Let's say you have a model named ArticleStat and its respective table named article_stats. Suppose this model also has a logdate attribute of type date. We want to partition the data by year and month using this attribute.

Add the acts_as_partitionable module and method to the model. The index_fields and logdate_attr are mandatory options. The first one adds an index for those attributes when creating the partitions and the latter is the date attribute used for routing the records to the correct partitions:

class ArticleStat < ApplicationRecord
  include Partitionable::ActsAsPartitionable

  acts_as_partitionable index_fields: ['id', 'site'], logdate_attr: 'logdate'
end

And that's it. Now every time you create a new record, the gem will create the correspondent partition table if doesn't exists. It also will update the trigger function so every other new record that should go into this partition gets correctly routed.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem "partitionable", '~> 0.2.0'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Tests

First, create the database for the dummy embedded application:

cd test/dummy
bin/rails db:setup
cd ../..

Then you can run the tests with:

bin/test

Contributing

1. Fork it ( https://github.com/pacuna/partitionable/fork )
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create a new Pull Request

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.