Re: Handling large volumes of data

On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 7:42 PM, Johann Spies <jspies(at)sun(dot)ac(dot)za> wrote:

> Apparently the best approach is not to have very large tables. I am
> thinking of making (as far as the firewall is concerned) a different
> table for each day and then drop the older tables as necessary.
>
> Any advice on how to best handle this kind of setup will be
> appreciated.
>
>
Table paritioning is what you need -->
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/ddl-partitioning.html and then
I will also advise distribute your tables across different disks through
tablespaces. Tweak the shared buffers and work_mem settings as well.

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Shoaib Mir
Fujitsu Australia Software Technology
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