Re: Table fragmentation? - Mailing list pgadmin-hackers

From Rod Taylor
Subject Re: Table fragmentation?
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Msg-id 1055424127.64954.2.camel@jester
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In response to Table fragmentation?  (R C <raymond.chui@noaa.gov>)
List pgadmin-hackers
On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 08:48, R C wrote:
> Will PostgreSQL has a plan to support
> table fragmentation in nearby future?
> This will increase the performance when
> query a huge database. Most of commercial
> database products have this feature.

You will probably find nearly as big of a performance gain by splitting
your index up.

Take a look at partial indexes (with the WHERE clause).

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/view.php?version=7.3&idoc=1&file=sql-createindex.html


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Rod Taylor <rbt@rbt.ca>

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