Re: PostgreSQL clustering VS MySQL clustering - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Joshua D. Drake
Subject Re: PostgreSQL clustering VS MySQL clustering
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In response to Re: PostgreSQL clustering VS MySQL clustering  (Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>)
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Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:

>> Probably by carefully partitioning their data.  I can't imagine anything
>> being fast on a single table in 250,000,000 tuple range.  Nor can I
>> really imagine any database that efficiently splits a single table
>> across multiple machines (or even inefficiently unless some internal
>> partitioning is being done).
>
>
> Ah, what about partial indexes - those might help.  As a kind of
> 'semi-partition'.

He could also you schemas to partition out the information within the
same database.

J

>
> Chris



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