2009/5/28 Kenneth Marshall <ktm(at)rice(dot)edu>:
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> One big benefit of partitioning is that you can prune old data with
> minimal impact to the running system. Doing a large bulk delete would
> be extremely I/O impacting without partion support. We use this for
> a DB log system and it allows us to simply truncate a day table instead
> of a delete -- much, much faster.
Thanks. I'll need to investigate how much administrative overhead and
fragility partitioning will introduce since the data will also be
replicated between 2 servers (I'm thinking of using Slony). Any
experience with this combination?