Re: PostgreSQL clustering VS MySQL clustering

From: Gaetano Mendola <mendola(at)bigfoot(dot)com>
To: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL clustering VS MySQL clustering
Date: 2005-02-18 23:27:07
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Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 10:08:47AM -0500, Stephen Frost wrote:
>
>>* Christopher Kings-Lynne (chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au) wrote:
>>
>>>PostgreSQL has replication, but not partitioning (which is what you want).
>>
>>It doesn't have multi-server partitioning.. It's got partitioning
>>within a single server (doesn't it? I thought it did, I know it was
>>discussed w/ the guy from Cox Communications and I thought he was using
>>it :).
>
>
> No, PostgreSQL doesn't support any kind of partitioning, unless you
> write it yourself. I think there's some work being done in this area,
> though.

Seen my last attempts to perform an horizontal partition I have to say
that postgres do not support it even if you try to write it yourself
(see my post "horizontal partion" ).

Regards
Gaetano Mendola

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