Re: Feature suggestions (long)

From: Matthew Kirkwood <matthew(at)hairy(dot)beasts(dot)org>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)dcc(dot)uchile(dot)cl>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>, <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Feature suggestions (long)
Date: 2003-05-17 17:51:48
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.33.0305171848440.24407-100000@sphinx.mythic-beasts.com
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On Sat, 17 May 2003, Alvaro Herrera wrote:

> > > I'm going suggest a feature like what Oracle calls "partitions" and later on
> > > something with indexes. The idea is to generate some discussion to see if
> > > they are worthy of being added to the TODO list.
> >
> > Why bother?
>
> Maybe one can put different partitions in different tablespaces?

One can. The tablespace a partition is in can even be
offline if Oracle can prove that a query doesn't require
that partition.

Matthew.

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