On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 6:08 PM, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> Agreed. Perhaps I should say then that the syntax needs to express the
> requirements of the planner/executor behaviour, rather than being the
> main aspect of the feature, as some have suggested.
Agreed.
> Hopefully, notions of partitioning won't be directly tied to chunking of
> data for parallel query access. Most queries access recent data and
> hence only a single partition (or stripe), so partitioning and
> parallelism and frequently exactly orthogonal.
Yes, I think those things are unrelated.
...Robert