I have a quite huge MySQL table. In my table I have date field. Recently I created another field called YearMonth which get year from date, multiple it to 100 and adds the month from date table to it. So if my date is 2013/07/09 my YearMonth field would be 201307.
Now I want to partition my table based on YearMonth field, but it seems to partition you need to specify some properties for your partion like:
PARTITION BY ...
PARTITIONS someInt;
or
PARTITION BY ...
PARTITIONS VALUES IN ...;
or
PARTITION BY ...
PARTITIONS VALUES LESS THAN;
what I am looking for is to have a partition for each YearMonth field. And writing all of them would make one big list, which exceed every month, and I guess I need to add new values monthly. I was wondering if there is way to partition your table without specifying any properties or limitation.
