From: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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To: | Zeugswetter Andreas ADI SD <ZeugswetterA(at)spardat(dot)at> |
Cc: | Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Markus Schiltknecht <markus(at)bluegap(dot)ch>, Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>, Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, NikhilS <nikkhils(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Auto Partitioning |
Date: | 2007-04-06 14:39:16 |
Message-ID: | 46165B94.10809@commandprompt.com |
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Zeugswetter Andreas ADI SD wrote:
>>> (But that sounds rather like pie in the sky, actually. Which other
>>> databases can do that, and how do they do it?)
>> Oracle does it, by building a big index. Few people use it.
>
> And others allow a different partitioning strategy for each index,
> but that has the same problem of how to remove partitions without
> a huge amount of index reorganization.
If you removed a partition, couldn't the index be cleaned up by VACUUM?
Joshua D. Drake
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