Partitioning Support in Doctrine for Relational Database

[cs-alok-agarwal]

Partitioning Support in Doctrine for Relational Databases

Q	A
New Feature	yes
RFC	no
BC Break	no

Summary

Request a support for partitioning support in native doctrine.
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/12/ddl-partitioning.html

Main Challenge in implementing partitioning currently is, partitioning needs to be defined while create table itself.
Currently as the option is not available we cannot use same

From Postgres Documentation:
_It is not possible to turn a regular table into a partitioned table or vice versa. However, it is possible to add an existing regular or partitioned table as a partition of a partitioned table, or remove a partition from a partitioned table turning it into a standalone table. Link

Similar to index or unique constraint support we can have partitioning column support too for Databases.
Like partition_option({"type": "range", column: "date", max_partition: 40})

[pierre-cba]

I'm looking for this feature !

[morozov]

I don't think we can just add a platform-specific feature to the DBAL API. Even if partitioning is supported by multiple platforms, there are high chances that their APIs and capabilities are different. The only reasonable way to support features like this is to break the Platform API down to smaller pieces and make them extensible independently. Something along the lines documented in #3731.

[SteppingHat]

I second this! Horizontal partitioning is a powerful feature for large datasets where newer entries are accessed more frequently than older entries.
If Doctrine can natively support this it would be a HUGE feature add. The amount of work required to manually implement this is huge and could definitely be simplified.

Sales pitch aside, I also am an advocate for #3731 as this opens a door to exploring platform specific features, and to my knowledge has no downsides (much like how Symfony is structured).

[SteppingHat]

Also this isn't PostgreSQL specific, MySQL/MariaDB supports this too.

[BenMorel]

Hi, we need this too. Is there a workaround we can implement (in code) in the meantime, to get doctrine:schema:validate correctly validate our table with partitions?

[digitaltim-de]

Hello, we need this too. Its important feature!

[derrabus]

Hello, we need this too. Its important feature!

Go ahead and build that feature, then.

[vytsci]

Hello, we need this too. Its important feature!

Go ahead and build that feature, then.

Rather than being sarcastic, maybe there is some guidelines, how we can approach this?

[derrabus]

Rather than being sarcastic

Nobody's being sarcastic. This is a community-driven open source project. If you want a change to happen, make it happen.

[nikophil]

Hello,

maybe at least we could make the dbal see "partiioned" table, and ignore "partitions"?

this would allow to work with manually partitioned tables as doctrine would consider them as normal tables, and would not suggest to remove partitions

see #6516

[nikophil]

Is there a workaround we can implement (in code) in the meantime, to get doctrine:schema:validate correctly validate our table with partitions?

@BenMorel in #6516, in dbal v4.2, you'll be able to transparently use partitions tables with doctrine

[BenMorel]

@nikophil Well done, thanks!