Re: WORM and Read Only Tables (v0.1)

From: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Csaba Nagy <nagy(at)ecircle-ag(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: WORM and Read Only Tables (v0.1)
Date: 2007-12-11 15:35:33
Message-ID: 1197387333.4255.1346.camel@ebony.site
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On Tue, 2007-12-11 at 13:44 +0100, Csaba Nagy wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-12-11 at 11:12 +0000, Simon Riggs wrote:
> > Features
> > - Read Only Tables
> > - Compressed Tablespaces
>
> I wonder if instead of read-only tables wouldn't it be better to have
> some kind of automatic partitioning

That's definitely on my list of requirements for partitioning.

> which permits to have different
> chunks of the table data in different tablespaces, and a freeze command
> which effectively moves the data from the (normally small) active chunk
> to the archive chunk when it's transaction id is older than a predefined
> threshold ?

As Hannu says, this is exactly what the other features will allow, so
Yes!

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Simon Riggs
2ndQuadrant http://www.2ndQuadrant.com

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