GSOC PostgreSQL partitioning issue

Benefits of Project

Partitioning refers to splitting what is logically one large table
into smaller physical pieces. Partitioning can provide several
benefits:

Query performance can be improved dramatically in certain situations,
particularly when most of the heavily accessed rows of the table are
in a single partition or a small number of partitions. The
partitioning substitutes for leading columns of indexes, reducing
index size and making it more likely that the heavily-used parts of
the indexes fit in memory.

When queries or updates access a large percentage of a single
partition, performance can be improved by taking advantage of
sequential scan of that partition instead of using an index and random
access reads scattered across the whole table.

Bulk loads and deletes can be accomplished by adding or removing
partitions, if that requirement is planned into the partitioning
design. ALTER TABLE is far faster than a bulk operation. It also
entirely avoids the VACUUM overhead caused by a bulk DELETE.

Seldom-used data can be migrated to cheaper and slower storage media.

Delivarables

*The trigger based operations can be done automatically

*The stored procedures can help us to do some functionalities like
check constraint problem

*manual VACUUM or ANALYZE commands can be handled by using triggers
DBMS SQL can help to provide faster executions

*Some more functionalities can be added to UPDATE operations to make
administrations easy

Timeline (not exact but most probably)

Start at june 7 and End around 7 september

*Warm up to environment to Postgresql(1-2 weeks)

*Determine exact operations to be addded on postgresql

*Initial coding as to workbreakdown structure

*Start implementing on distributed environment to check inital functions work

*Write test cases for code

*Further implementation to support full functionalities on ideas

*Write it to discussion site and collect feedbacks

*More support upon feedbacks

*Last tests and documentation of final operations

About me

I am a senior student at computer engineering at iztech in turkey. My
areas of inetrests are information management, OOP(Object Oriented
Programming) and currently bioinformatics. I have been working with a
Asistan Professor(Jens Allmer) in molecular biology genetics
department for one year.Firstly, we worked on a protein database 2DB
and we presented the project in HIBIT09 organization. The Project was
“Database management system independence by amending 2DB with a
database access layer”. Currently, I am working on another project
(Kerb) as my senior project which is a general sqeuential task
management system intend to reduce the errors and increase time saving
in biological experiments. We will present this project in HIBIT2010
too. Moreover,I am good at data structures and implementations on C.

Contact: e-mails; necatibatur(at)gmail(dot)com , necati_batur(at)hotmail(dot)com(msn)