| From: | Bruno Wolff III <bruno(at)wolff(dot)to> |
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| To: | David McLoughlin <dmcloughlin(at)sherkin(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: table size |
| Date: | 2003-09-23 14:55:41 |
| Message-ID: | 20030923145541.GA12673@wolff.to |
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On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 10:35:57 +0100,
David McLoughlin <dmcloughlin(at)sherkin(dot)com> wrote:
> I have a table in my database which can grow very quickly. Is
> there some way to partition the table so that when it reaches a certain
> size the information in it is copied to a temporary table and the
> original table is free again.
>
> Or is this possible at all. If not is there any sort of perfomance
> update I can add to speed up the queries on such a large table.
You can use partial indexes to only index a subset of the data. This
may be good enough for your needs. You will need to create new
partial indexes periodicly (and maybe remove old ones to save space).
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