Re: Partitioning and Table Inheritance

Hi

12.05.2017 23:22, Justin Pryzby пишет:
> On Mon, May 08, 2017 at 10:12:18AM -0700, Paul A Jungwirth wrote:
>> I'm working on a problem where partitioning seems to be the right
>> approach, but we would need a lot of partitions (say 10k or 100k).
>> Everywhere I read that after ~100 child tables you experience
>> problems. I have a few questions about that:
> We use partitioning, previously one child per month (with history of 1-6
> years); I tried using one child per day, and caused issues.
>
> For us, planning time is pretty unimportant (~1sec would be acceptable 99% of
> the time) but I recall seeing even more than that. I changed to using daily
> granularity for only our largest tables, which seems to be working fine for the
> last ~9months. So the issue isn't just "number of children" but "total number
> of tables". I believe the problem may have been due to large
> pg_statistic/pg_attribute and similar tables taking more than a few 100MBs, and
> potentially no longer fitting in buffer cache.
>
>> 3. Is it true that query planning time should scale linearly as I add
>> more child tables?
> I believe it's understood to be super-linear:
> https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/26761.1483989025%40sss.pgh.pa.us
> https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/4188.1298960419%40sss.pgh.pa.us
There is an extension called pg_pathman which seriously optimizes the
table partitioning, it might help in your case:

https://github.com/postgrespro/pg_pathman

See also:

https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/4188.1298960419%40sss.pgh.pa.us and

https://postgrespro.com/blog/pgsql/pg_pathman_e
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> Justin
>
>
Ivan