On Wed, 2020-11-18 at 10:57 +0100, Thomas Kellerer wrote:
> > No matter how long it takes, this is an excellent argument for
> > partitioning Very Large Tables: many maintenance tasks are made
> > *much* easier.
>
> The problem is, you can't partition every table as long as Postgres
> does not support a primary key that is independent of the partitioning key
> (i.e. until it has "global indexes" as they are called in Oracle)
I personally hope that we will never have global indexes.
I am not looking forward to helping customers with the problems that
they create (long duration of ATTACH/DETACH PARTITION, index fragmentation).
Yours,
Laurenz Albe
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