Subpartitioning

Subpartitioning (also referred to as composite partitioning) is a combination of basic data partitioning types. A table is partitioned by one data distribution method and then each partition is further subdivided into new partitions using a second data distribution method. All new partitions of a given partition represent a logical subset of the data. Common types of composite partitioning are as follows:

Range-Range
Range-List
Range-Hash
List-Range
List-List
List-Hash
Hash-Range
Hash-List
Hash-Hash

Example:

gaussdb=# 
--Range-Range
CREATE TABLE t_range_range (
    c1 INT,
    c2 INT,
    c3 INT
)
PARTITION BY RANGE (c1) 
SUBPARTITION BY RANGE (c2) 
(
    PARTITION p1 VALUES LESS THAN (10) (
        SUBPARTITION p1sp1 VALUES LESS THAN (5),
        SUBPARTITION p1sp2 VALUES LESS THAN (10)
    ),
    PARTITION p2 VALUES LESS THAN (20) (
        SUBPARTITION p2sp1 VALUES LESS THAN (15),
        SUBPARTITION p2sp2 VALUES LESS THAN (20)
    )
);
DROP TABLE t_range_range;

--Range-List
CREATE TABLE t_range_list (
    c1 INT,
    c2 INT,
    c3 INT
)
PARTITION BY RANGE (c1) 
SUBPARTITION BY LIST (c2) 
(
    PARTITION p1 VALUES LESS THAN (10) (
        SUBPARTITION p1sp1 VALUES (1, 2),
        SUBPARTITION p1sp2 VALUES (3, 4)
    ),
    PARTITION p2 VALUES LESS THAN (20) (
        SUBPARTITION p2sp1 VALUES (1, 2),
        SUBPARTITION p2sp2 VALUES (3, 4)
    )
);
DROP TABLE t_range_list;

--Range-Hash
CREATE TABLE t_range_hash (
    c1 INT,
    c2 INT,
    c3 INT
)
PARTITION BY RANGE (c1) 
SUBPARTITION BY HASH (c2) 
SUBPARTITIONS 2
(
    PARTITION p1 VALUES LESS THAN (10),
    PARTITION p2 VALUES LESS THAN (20)
);
DROP TABLE t_range_hash;

--List-Range
CREATE TABLE t_list_range (
    c1 INT,
    c2 INT,
    c3 INT
)
PARTITION BY LIST (c1) 
SUBPARTITION BY RANGE (c2) 
(
    PARTITION p1 VALUES (1, 2) (
        SUBPARTITION p1sp1 VALUES LESS THAN (5),
        SUBPARTITION p1sp2 VALUES LESS THAN (10)
    ),
    PARTITION p2 VALUES (3, 4) (
        SUBPARTITION p2sp1 VALUES LESS THAN (5),
        SUBPARTITION p2sp2 VALUES LESS THAN (10)
    )
);
DROP TABLE t_list_range;

--List-List
CREATE TABLE t_list_list (
    c1 INT,
    c2 INT,
    c3 INT
)
PARTITION BY LIST (c1) 
SUBPARTITION BY LIST (c2) 
(
    PARTITION p1 VALUES (1, 2) (
        SUBPARTITION p1sp1 VALUES (1, 2),
        SUBPARTITION p1sp2 VALUES (3, 4)
    ),
    PARTITION p2 VALUES (3, 4) (
        SUBPARTITION p2sp1 VALUES (1, 2),
        SUBPARTITION p2sp2 VALUES (3, 4)
    )
);
DROP TABLE t_list_list;

--List-Hash
CREATE TABLE t_list_hash (
    c1 INT,
    c2 INT,
    c3 INT
)
PARTITION BY LIST (c1) 
SUBPARTITION BY HASH (c2) 
SUBPARTITIONS 2
(
    PARTITION p1 VALUES (1, 2),
    PARTITION p2 VALUES (3, 4)
);
DROP TABLE t_list_hash;

--Hash-Range
CREATE TABLE t_hash_range (
    c1 INT,
    c2 INT,
    c3 INT
)
PARTITION BY HASH (c1) 
PARTITIONS 2
SUBPARTITION BY RANGE (c2) 
(
    PARTITION p1 (
        SUBPARTITION p1sp1 VALUES LESS THAN (5),
        SUBPARTITION p1sp2 VALUES LESS THAN (10)
    ),
    PARTITION p2 (
        SUBPARTITION p2sp1 VALUES LESS THAN (5),
        SUBPARTITION p2sp2 VALUES LESS THAN (10)
    )
);
DROP TABLE t_hash_range;

--Hash-List
CREATE TABLE t_hash_list (
    c1 INT,
    c2 INT,
    c3 INT
)
PARTITION BY HASH (c1) 
PARTITIONS 2
SUBPARTITION BY LIST (c2) 
(
    PARTITION p1 (
        SUBPARTITION p1sp1 VALUES (1, 2),
        SUBPARTITION p1sp2 VALUES (3, 4)
    ),
    PARTITION p2 (
        SUBPARTITION p2sp1 VALUES (1, 2),
        SUBPARTITION p2sp2 VALUES (3, 4)
    )
);
DROP TABLE t_hash_list;

--Hash-Hash
CREATE TABLE t_hash_hash (
    c1 INT,
    c2 INT,
    c3 INT
)
PARTITION BY HASH (c1) 
PARTITIONS 2
SUBPARTITION BY HASH (c2) 
SUBPARTITIONS 2
(
    PARTITION p1,
    PARTITION p2
);
DROP TABLE t_hash_hash;