Re: Table partitioning for maximum speed? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Jean-Luc Lachance
Subject Re: Table partitioning for maximum speed?
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Msg-id 3F8C04E1.1DA24ACB@nsd.ca
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In response to Table partitioning for maximum speed?  (Jeff Boes <jboes@nexcerpt.com>)
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I was replying to the general comment that PG cannot profit from having
patitioned tables.

Vivek Khera wrote:
>
> >>>>> "JL" == Jean-Luc Lachance <jllachan@nsd.ca> writes:
>
> JL> BULL.
> JL> How many times does PG have to scan the whole table because of MVCC?
> JL> At least with partitioning there is a fighting chance that that won't be
> JL> necessary.
>
> Huh?  His specific query was "WHERE md5 = '....'".  Why on earth would
> that force a sequence scan if it were an indexed column?  Heck, the
> btree index should rule out 15/16ths of the rows after the first
> character comparison.
>
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