Re: Hash partitioning.

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com>
Cc: Yuri Levinsky <yuril(at)celltick(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Christopher Browne <cbbrowne(at)gmail(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Mailing Lists <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Hash partitioning.
Date: 2013-06-26 14:14:20
Message-ID: 20130626141420.GC3341@momjian.us
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On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 05:10:00PM +0300, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> In practice, there might be a lot of quirks and inefficiencies and
> locking contention etc. involved in various DBMS's, that you might
> be able to work around with hash partitioning. But from a
> theoretical point of view, there is no reason to expect just
> partitioning a table on a hash to make key-value lookups any faster.

Good analysis. Has anyone benchmarked this to know our btree is
efficient in this area?

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