Re: Dynamic Partitioning using Segment Visibility Maps - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From tomas@tuxteam.de
Subject Re: Dynamic Partitioning using Segment Visibility Maps
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Msg-id 20080105124547.GA17275@www.trapp.net
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In response to Re: Dynamic Partitioning using Segment Visibility Maps  (Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>)
Responses Re: Dynamic Partitioning using Segment Visibility Maps  (Markus Schiltknecht <markus@bluegap.ch>)
Re: Dynamic Partitioning using Segment Visibility Maps  ("Gokulakannan Somasundaram" <gokul007@gmail.com>)
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On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 09:33:45AM +0000, Simon Riggs wrote:

[...]

> The main proposal deliberately has few, if any, knobs and dials. That's
> a point of philosophy that I've had views on previously: my normal
> stance is that we need some knobs to allow the database to be tuned to
> individual circumstances. 

One thought I had back then, with partitioned tables was "gee -- B-tree
index is already doing a partition; why do a manual partition on top of
that?".

It's an exhilarating experience to watch you making a design before I
could even spell this nebulous and unclear thougt :-)

Regards
- -- tomás
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