On Wed, 6 Jun 2007, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 05:59:25PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> I think the main argument for partitioning is when you are interested in
>> being able to drop whole partitions cheaply.
>
> Wasn't there also talk about adding the ability to mark individual partitions
> as read-only, thus bypassing MVCC and allowing queries to be satisfied using
> indexes only?
>
> Not that I think I've seen it on the TODO... :-)
now that's a very interesting idea, especially when combined with
time-based data where the old times will never change.
David Lang