Re: Data Warehouse Reevaluation - MySQL vs Postgres -- - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Josh Berkus
Subject Re: Data Warehouse Reevaluation - MySQL vs Postgres --
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Msg-id 200409151028.08461.josh@agliodbs.com
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In response to Re: Data Warehouse Reevaluation - MySQL vs Postgres --  (Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>)
Responses Re: Data Warehouse Reevaluation - MySQL vs Postgres --
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Joe,

>   - the use of inherited tables to partition this huge number of rows and
>     yet allow simple query access to it seems to work well, at least in
>     early validation tests
>   - had we simply taken the original database and "slammed" it into
>     Postgres with no further thought, we would not have seen the big
>     improvements, and thus the project might have been seen as a failure
>     (even though it saves substantial $)

Any further thoughts on developing this into true table partitioning?

--
--Josh

Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco

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