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| 1 | +Django DB Parti |
| 2 | +=============== |
| 3 | + |
| 4 | +Django DB Parti is a package for Django which aim is to make table partitioning on the fly. |
| 5 | +Partitioning is a division of one large table into smaller tables which represent that table. |
| 6 | +Partitioning is usually done for manageability, performance or availability reasons. If you |
| 7 | +are unsure whether you need partitioning or not, then you almost certainly don't need it. |
| 8 | + |
| 9 | +Requirements |
| 10 | +------------ |
| 11 | + |
| 12 | +* Django 1.5 (http://www.djangoproject.com) (may work with older versions, but untested) |
| 13 | + |
| 14 | +Installation |
| 15 | +------------ |
| 16 | + |
| 17 | +From pypi_:: |
| 18 | + |
| 19 | + $ pip install django-db-parti |
| 20 | + |
| 21 | +or clone from github_:: |
| 22 | + |
| 23 | + $ git clone git://github.com/maxtepkeev/django-db-parti.git |
| 24 | + |
| 25 | +Configuration |
| 26 | +------------- |
| 27 | + |
| 28 | +Add dbparti to PYTHONPATH and installed applications:: |
| 29 | + |
| 30 | + INSTALLED_APPS = ( |
| 31 | + ... |
| 32 | + 'dbparti' |
| 33 | + ) |
| 34 | + |
| 35 | +Create the model as usual which will represent the partitioned table, if you are using South |
| 36 | +for migrations, you can also create the model as usual. No additional steps required. After that |
| 37 | +we need to make a few changes to the model: |
| 38 | + |
| 39 | +\1) In models.py add the following import statement at the top of the file:: |
| 40 | + |
| 41 | + from dbparti.models import Partitionable |
| 42 | + |
| 43 | +\2) Make your model to inherit from Partitionable, to do that change:: |
| 44 | + |
| 45 | + class YourModelName(models.Model): |
| 46 | + |
| 47 | +to:: |
| 48 | + |
| 49 | + class YourModelName(Partitionable): |
| 50 | + |
| 51 | +\3) Optionally add a Meta class to your model with a few settings (or if you already have a Meta class change it as the following):: |
| 52 | + |
| 53 | + class Meta(Partitionable.Meta): |
| 54 | + partition_range = 'month' |
| 55 | + partition_column = 'partdate' |
| 56 | + |
| 57 | +That's it! Easy right?! Now a few words about what we just did. We made our model to inherit from Partitionable, also we |
| 58 | +used "month" as partition range and "partdate" as partition column, that means that from now on, a new partition will be |
| 59 | +created every month and a value from partdate column will be used for that. You can also customize how data from that model |
| 60 | +will be displayed in the Django admin interface, for that you need to do the following: |
| 61 | + |
| 62 | +\1) In admin.py add the following import statement at the top of the file:: |
| 63 | + |
| 64 | + from dbparti.admin import PartitionableAdmin |
| 65 | + |
| 66 | +\2) Create admin model as usual and then change:: |
| 67 | + |
| 68 | + class YourAdminModelName(admin.ModelAdmin): |
| 69 | + |
| 70 | +to:: |
| 71 | + |
| 72 | + class YourAdminModelName(PartitionableAdmin): |
| 73 | + |
| 74 | +\3) Optionally add a setting which tells how records are displayed in Django admin interface (more on that below):: |
| 75 | + |
| 76 | + partition_show = 'all' |
| 77 | + |
| 78 | +Available settings |
| 79 | +------------------ |
| 80 | + |
| 81 | +Model settings: |
| 82 | +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
| 83 | + |
| 84 | +All model settings are done inside model's Meta class which should inherit from Partitionable.Meta |
| 85 | + |
| 86 | +``partition_range`` - how often a new partition will be created, currently accepts the following: |
| 87 | + |
| 88 | +* week |
| 89 | +* month (default) |
| 90 | + |
| 91 | +``partition_column`` - column name, which value will be used to determine which partition record belongs to: |
| 92 | + |
| 93 | +* partdate (default) |
| 94 | + |
| 95 | +ModelAdmin settings: |
| 96 | +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
| 97 | + |
| 98 | +All model admin settings are done inside model admin class itself |
| 99 | + |
| 100 | +``partition_show`` - data from which partition will be shown in Django admin, the following values are possible: |
| 101 | + |
| 102 | +* all (default) |
| 103 | +* current |
| 104 | +* previous |
| 105 | + |
| 106 | +Example |
| 107 | +------- |
| 108 | + |
| 109 | +Let's imagine that we would like to create a table for storing log files. Without partitioning our table would have |
| 110 | +millions of rows very soon and as the table grows performance will become slower. With partitioning we can tell database |
| 111 | +that we want a new table to be created every month and that we will use a value from partdate to determine to which partition |
| 112 | +every new record belongs to. To be more specific let's call our table "logdata", it will have only 3 columns: id, content and |
| 113 | +logdate. Now when we insert the following record: id='1', content='blablabla', logdate='2013-05-20', this record will be |
| 114 | +inserted not to our "logdata" table but to the "logdata_y2013m05", then if we insert another record like that: id='2', |
| 115 | +content='yadayadayada', logdate='2013-07-16' it will be inserted to the table "logdata_y2013m07" BUT the great thing about |
| 116 | +all of that is that you are doing your inserts/updates/selects to the table "logdata"! Again, your are working with the table |
| 117 | +"logdata" as usual and you don't may even know that actually your data is stored in a lot of different tables, everything is |
| 118 | +done for you automatically at the database level, isn't that cool ?! |
| 119 | + |
| 120 | +Backends |
| 121 | +-------- |
| 122 | + |
| 123 | +Django DB Parti is designed in a modular way, so new db backends can be added easily, currently the following backends are available: |
| 124 | + |
| 125 | +* postgresql |
| 126 | + |
| 127 | +Limitations |
| 128 | +----------- |
| 129 | + |
| 130 | +Currently partitioning is only possible on a date basis, so you can't partition for example by ZIP code or something else. Other |
| 131 | +partitioning options will be added in next releases. |
| 132 | + |
| 133 | +Contact & Support |
| 134 | +----------------- |
| 135 | + |
| 136 | +I will be glad to get your feedback, pull requests, issues, whatever. Feel free to contact me for any questions. |
| 137 | + |
| 138 | +Copyright & License |
| 139 | +------------------- |
| 140 | + |
| 141 | +``django-db-parti`` is protected by BSD licence. |
| 142 | + |
| 143 | +.. _pypi: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/django-db-parti |
| 144 | +.. _github: https://github.com/maxtepkeev/django-db-parti |
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