Large number of partitions of a table

From: Victor Sudakov <vas(at)sibptus(dot)ru>
To: pgsql-admin(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Large number of partitions of a table
Date: 2022-01-17 02:44:19
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Dear Colleagues,

Do you have success (or disaster) stories for having a large number of
partitions in a table (like maybe 10000) in a production database?

I've found a great article
https://www.depesz.com/2021/01/17/are-there-limits-to-partition-counts/
and basically it says 70000 partitions are OK but would like to hear
more opinions especially from production experience.

If a table itself has e.g. 50 indexes, partitioning it will create 10000
extra tables and 50*10000=500000 indexes, isn't it a heavy burden on the
system catalogs (pg_statistic etc). It may slow down ANALYZE or have
some other adverse effects.

Any comments welcome.

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Victor Sudakov VAS4-RIPE
http://vas.tomsk.ru/
2:5005/49(at)fidonet

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