For index-organized tables, you can use the range, list, or hash partitioning method. The semantics for creating partitioned index-organized tables is similar to that for regular tables with these differences:
When you create the table, you specify the ORGANIZATION INDEX clause, and INCLUDING and OVERFLOW clauses as necessary.
The PARTITION clause can have OVERFLOW subclauses that allow you to specify attributes of the overflow segments at the partition level.
Specifying an OVERFLOW clause results in the overflow data segments themselves being equipartitioned with the primary key index segments. Thus, for partitioned index-organized tables with overflow, each partition has an index segment and an overflow data segment.
For index-organized tables, the set of partitioning columns must be a subset of the primary key columns. Because rows of an index-organized table are stored in the primary key index for the table, the partitioning criterion affects the availability. By choosing the partitioning key to be a subset of the primary key, an insert operation must only verify uniqueness of the primary key in a single partition, thereby maintaining partition independence.
Support for secondary indexes on index-organized tables is similar to the support for regular tables. Because of the logical nature of the secondary indexes, global indexes on index-organized tables remain usable for certain operations where they would be marked UNUSABLE for regular tables. For more information, refer to "Maintenance Operations for Partitioned Tables and Indexes".
This section contains the following topics:
Oracle Database Administrator's Guide for more information about managing index-organized tables
Oracle Database Concepts for more information about index-organized tables