| From: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> | 
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| To: | "Girish Bajaj" <gbajaj(at)tietronix(dot)com>, <pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org> | 
| Subject: | Re: Table Partitioning and Rules | 
| Date: | 2003-07-17 19:38:42 | 
| Message-ID: | 200307171238.42550.josh@agliodbs.com | 
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Girish,
> I cant possibly index all the cols in the table.
Why not?
Seriously, what you can do is use query logging to log the columns and 
combinations of columns that users most frequently ask for.  Then you can 
index for those queries.
Your partitioning scheme assumes that users will be searching on the last name 
most of the time, so I'd start with that.
> Im getting a little confused here cause eventually I would want to join in
> this 250 million gigantic table as well.. and that would be a real big
> problem causing loads of sequential scans wouldn't it?
Yes, it would.
-- 
-Josh Berkus
 Aglio Database Solutions
 San Francisco
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