Creates a table for the day in the db on the clipper_day schema and returns the name of it. Using in-database functions, returns card_id as a SHA_1 hash and time zone to PST.

fares_for_day(partition_time = "10:00:00", start_date = "2016-01-01",
  drop_existing_table = FALSE)

Arguments

partition_time

time to use as the start of a "day." defaults to 3 AM PST (10 AM UTC)

start_date

date this is the start date for the day (starting at 3 am at the partition time above). note that the day may "end" at 3 am the next day.

drop_existing_table

whether to drop an existing partitioned table for this date