| From: | Markus Schiltknecht <markus(at)bluegap(dot)ch> |
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| To: | tomas(at)tuxteam(dot)de |
| Cc: | Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Andrew Sullivan <ajs(at)crankycanuck(dot)ca> |
| Subject: | Re: Dynamic Partitioning using Segment Visibility Maps |
| Date: | 2008-01-05 15:04:54 |
| Message-ID: | 477F9C96.1020309@bluegap.ch |
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Hi,
tomas(at)tuxteam(dot)de wrote:
>> The main proposal deliberately has few, if any, knobs and dials. That's
>> a point of philosophy that I've had views on previously: my normal
>> stance is that we need some knobs to allow the database to be tuned to
>> individual circumstances.
>
> One thought I had back then, with partitioned tables was "gee -- B-tree
> index is already doing a partition; why do a manual partition on top of
> that?".
Well, that's why I'm so focused on manageability: I think the primary
purpose of partitioning is manageability (of the underlying storage for
a table).
Regards
Markus
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