On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 11:25 AM, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
> Secondly, I think that's to a significant degree caused by
> the fact that in practice people way more often partition on types like
> int4/int8/date/timestamp/uuid rather than text - there's rarely good
> reasons to do the latter.
Once we support more pushdowns to partitions, the only question is:
what are your join keys and what are your grouping keys?
Text is absolutely a normal join key or group key. Consider joins on a
user ID or grouping by a model number.
Regards, Jeff Davis
