Re: On Scalability - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Vincenzo Romano
Subject Re: On Scalability
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In response to On Scalability  (Vincenzo Romano <vincenzo.romano@notorand.it>)
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2010/7/29 Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>:
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>> Or maybe checking against the source code and its documentation, if any.
>
> No, not really.  What you really want to know is: what's the real
> planner overhead of having dozens/hundreds of partial indexes?  What's
> the write overhead?  There's no way you can derive that from the source
> code faster than you can test it.

Again, as the test would be rather killing for my group at this stage.

I think that knowing whether certain parts have been implemented
with linear or sub-linear (or whatever else) algorithms would
give good insights about scalability.

At a first glance it seems that for inheritance some bottleneck is
hindering a full exploit for table partitioning.

Is there anyone who knows whether those algorithms are linear or not?

And of course, I agree that real tests on real data will provide the real thing.

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