Re: linux world and table partitioning

On Fri, 2005-02-18 at 08:48 -0800, Timothy D. Witham wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-02-18 at 07:59 -0800, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> > >A lot of Oracle guys came up to the booth and one of them asked specifically
> > >about table partitioning. He asked "when is it going to get done?" and "if we
> > >want to do it why aren't we canvassing the corporate world (or a particular
> > >company) to sponsor it?".
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > Interesting. Well I can tell you that Command Prompt routinely
> > pursues companies to help push features back into the source.
> > The ECPG changes we submitted and some upcoming ODBC features
> > are an example of this.
> >
> > However what we have found is that most people running PostgreSQL
> > don't need table partitioning. We only have 3 customers that
> > would benefit from it.
> >
>
> I think that a better survey would be the number of people
> who decided that they couldn't use PostgreSQL because
> they felt that they really needed table partitioning.

Yes, I know some of those.

I will be looking to make ground on an effective solution to that for
8.1.

Best Regards, Simon Riggs