Re: PostgreSQL clustering VS MySQL clustering

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
Cc: Steve Wampler <swampler(at)noao(dot)edu>, Hervé Piedvache <herve(at)elma(dot)fr>, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL clustering VS MySQL clustering
Date: 2005-01-20 16:04:04
Message-ID: 41EFD674.2030600@commandprompt.com
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Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:

>> Probably by carefully partitioning their data. I can't imagine anything
>> being fast on a single table in 250,000,000 tuple range. Nor can I
>> really imagine any database that efficiently splits a single table
>> across multiple machines (or even inefficiently unless some internal
>> partitioning is being done).
>
>
> Ah, what about partial indexes - those might help. As a kind of
> 'semi-partition'.

He could also you schemas to partition out the information within the
same database.

J

>
> Chris

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