Thread: Table fragmentation?

Table fragmentation?

From
R C
Date:
Will PostgreSQL has a plan to support
table fragmentation in nearby future?
This will increase the performance when
query a huge database. Most of commercial
database products have this feature.


Re: Table fragmentation?

From
Rod Taylor
Date:
On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 08:48, R C wrote:
> Will PostgreSQL has a plan to support
> table fragmentation in nearby future?
> This will increase the performance when
> query a huge database. Most of commercial
> database products have this feature.

You will probably find nearly as big of a performance gain by splitting
your index up.

Take a look at partial indexes (with the WHERE clause).

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/view.php?version=7.3&idoc=1&file=sql-createindex.html


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