Hi,

tomas(at)tuxteam(dot)de wrote:
>> The main proposal deliberately has few, if any, knobs and dials. That's
>> a point of philosophy that I've had views on previously: my normal
>> stance is that we need some knobs to allow the database to be tuned to
>> individual circumstances. 
> 
> One thought I had back then, with partitioned tables was "gee -- B-tree
> index is already doing a partition; why do a manual partition on top of
> that?".

Well, that's why I'm so focused on manageability: I think the primary 
purpose of partitioning is manageability (of the underlying storage for 
a table).

Regards

Markus

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