Re: Should we warn against using too many partitions?

From: Justin Pryzby <pryzby(at)telsasoft(dot)com>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: David Rowley <david(dot)rowley(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Amit Langote <Langote_Amit_f8(at)lab(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Should we warn against using too many partitions?
Date: 2019-06-10 23:15:12
Message-ID: 20190610231512.GA30522@telsasoft.com
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On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 06:11:35PM -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> On 2019-Jun-09, Justin Pryzby wrote:
>
> > I think it should say:
> >
> > | Choosing the target number of partitions into which the table should be
> > | divided is also a critical decision to make. Not having enough
>
> I opined elsewhere in the thread that this phrase can be made into more
> straightforward English:
>
> Choosing the target number of partitions THAT the table should be
> divided INTO is also a critical decision to make. Not having enough
>
> What do you think of that formulation?

It originally said:
| Choosing the number of partitions to divide the table into is also a

So this mostly changes it back.

One could also say:
| Another critical decision is [the choice of?] the number of partitions
| into which the table['s content?] should be divided...

I'm okay with it if David is okay making the change :)

Thanks,
Justin

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