What happens if I duplicate a partition name across multiple segments?
The content of the table is split across n segments. For example, par.txt specifies 3 segments below and slices a table named vltablename by symbol into 3 segments.
For example:
$ cat /vol/db/par.txt
/vol/disk1/segment
/vol/disk2/segment
/vol/disk3/segment
$
$ ls /vol/disk*/segment/2011.03.07/vltable
/vol/disk1/segment/2011.03.07/vltable # sym A-I
/vol/disk2/segment/2011.03.07/vltable # sym J-R
/vol/disk3/segment/2011.03.07/vltable # sym R-Z
$
Note that the typical `p# attribute of column sym will be missing in the query result. Remember to re-apply the attribute prior to use.