"literal">UNION ALL</code> views can be used instead.  Such methods
     offer flexibility but do not have some of the performance benefits
     of built-in declarative partitioning.
    </p></div><div class="sect2" id="DDL-PARTITIONING-DECLARATIVE"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title">5.11.2. Declarative Partitioning <a href="#DDL-PARTITIONING-DECLARATIVE" class="id_link">#</a></h3></div></div></div><p>
    <span class="productname">PostgreSQL</span> allows you to declare
    that a table is