A preliminary version of the documentation for MySQL Partitioning is now available in the 5.1 Reference Manual.
Of particular interest is the Partitioning chapter:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/partitioning.html
Also review the updated 5.1 Manual sections covering CREATE TABLE and ALTER TABLE - which now include Partitioning-related syntax extensions to these commands.
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/create-table.html
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/alter-table.html
Note that, like Partitioning itself, this documentation is still in a very early stage at this time and is subject to change and improvement. Nonetheless, we hope you'll find it useful, and we welcome your comments and suggestions.
(Currently, the user comment system is not enabled for the 5.1 Manual, so feel free to post about the docs here.)
BUG Reports:
We need your help in testing and finding bugs. We now have a Server:Partitioning category in the Bugs System, so you can easily view Partitioning-related bugs and bugfixes. Please file your Partitioning Bugs in this category.
http://bugs.mysql.com/
Jon Stephens
MySQL Documentation Team @ Oracle
MySQL Dev Zone
MySQL Server Documentation
Oracle
Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 10/20/2005 03:15PM by Edwin DeSouza.