Re: Partial indexes instead of partitions

From: Sergey Konoplev <gray(dot)ru(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Leonardo F <m_lists(at)yahoo(dot)it>
Cc: pgsql-general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Partial indexes instead of partitions
Date: 2010-06-14 11:56:09
Message-ID: AANLkTilVoQRBfAuXKm9fuAPph7JFTp-e0eu_qBnTn0t6@mail.gmail.com
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On 14 June 2010 13:24, Leonardo F <m_lists(at)yahoo(dot)it> wrote:
>> For "inserts" I do not see the reason
>> why
>> it would be better to use index partitioning because AFAIK
>> b-tree
>> would behave exactly the same in both cases.
>
> no, when the index gets very big inserting random values gets
> very slow.

Hm, interesting. Could you please provide some references/links?

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