On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 10:35:57 +0100,
David McLoughlin <dmcloughlin@sherkin.com> wrote:
> I have a table in my database which can grow very quickly. Is
> there some way to partition the table so that when it reaches a certain
> size the information in it is copied to a temporary table and the
> original table is free again.
>
> Or is this possible at all. If not is there any sort of perfomance
> update I can add to speed up the queries on such a large table.
You can use partial indexes to only index a subset of the data. This
may be good enough for your needs. You will need to create new
partial indexes periodicly (and maybe remove old ones to save space).
