Many thousands of partitions - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Grzegorz Tańczyk
Subject Many thousands of partitions
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Hello,

I have question regarding one of caveats from docs:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/ddl-partitioning.html

"Partitioning using these techniques will work well with up to perhaps a hundred partitions; don't try to use many thousands of partitions."

What's the alternative? Nested partitioning could do the trick? I have milions of rows(numbers, timestamps and text(<4kb), which are frequently updated and there are also frequent inserts. Partitioning was my first thought about solution of this problem. I want to avoid long lasting locks, index rebuild problems and neverending vacuum.

Write performance may be low if at the same time I will have no problem selecting single rows using primary key(bigint).Partitioning seems to be the solution, but I'm sure I will end up with several thousands of automatically generated partitions.

Thanks

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Regards,
  Grzegorz

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