Re: Partitioning Option?

From: Gaetano Mendola <mendola(at)bigfoot(dot)com>
To: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Partitioning Option?
Date: 2005-02-25 00:39:08
Message-ID: 421E73AC.6000708@bigfoot.com
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Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> Tomeh, Husam wrote:
>
>> Does PostgreSQL support/allow "partitioning" of objects like tables and
>> indexes, like Oracle does?
>>
> We support tablespaces but not table partitioning. You can get around
> this by using namespaces and unions however.

I demonstrate that at least with 7.4.x the horizontal partition is not
applicable, see my post on performance ( "horizontal partition" )
As soon you use the view with all UNION joined with other table you loose
the index usage on that view :-(

Regards
Gaetano Mendola

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