Re: [PATCHES] Partition: use triggers instead of rules

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Michael Paesold <mpaesold(at)gmx(dot)at>, NikhilS <nikkhils(at)gmail(dot)com>, David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, "Jonah H(dot) Harris" <jonah(dot)harris(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Docs <pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org>, PostgreSQL Patches <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [PATCHES] Partition: use triggers instead of rules
Date: 2007-11-29 16:49:11
Message-ID: 474EED87.2030408@commandprompt.com
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Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>> Tom Lane wrote:
>>> "Joshua D. Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
>>>> Rules are extremely slow in comparisons and not anywhere near as
>>>> flexible. As I said up post yesterday... they work well in the basic
>>>> partitioning configuration but anything else they are extremely deficient.
>>> I think that the above claim is exceedingly narrow-minded.
>> We are talking about partitioning. It is supposed to be narrow-minded.
>
> Sure, but look at all the confusion we have had just on this list about
> it. We had better state why triggers should be used in place of rules
> _for_ _partitioning_ or that confusion will continue.

Sure I have no problem with that.

Joshua D. Drake

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