Received: from maia.hub.org (unknown [200.46.204.183]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64F416332F6 for ; Mon, 26 Apr 2010 13:01:43 -0300 (ADT) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.183]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 24328-05 for ; Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:01:33 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de (moutng.kundenserver.de [212.227.126.187]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8E346323AD for ; Mon, 26 Apr 2010 13:01:32 -0300 (ADT) Received: from [192.168.0.105] (pool-96-244-14-10.bltmmd.fios.verizon.net [96.244.14.10]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mrbap2) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0LmwP6-1NTm0U2rWO-00hWx7; Mon, 26 Apr 2010 18:01:31 +0200 Message-ID: <4BD5B8D9.60704@2ndquadrant.com> Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 12:01:29 -0400 From: Greg Smith User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (X11/20100317) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Anj Adu CC: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Postgres 8.5 partitioning References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX19cRU6NOMVwKVH3PthtOgammNo0K6KeFRGQ6sm oumBMYg7I6gNT1dwdoe/hS2lnvA8o80/97ks/slkJnrK/ELbKm 01fq3wZI+BPwHaKmDjyyBoeFpkx7WGT X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.001 tagged_above=-10 required=5 tests=BAYES_20=-0.001 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 201004/332 X-Sequence-Number: 34426 Anj Adu wrote: > Will 8.5 have table partitions as first-class objects (i.e not > inheritted tables..but partitions) > What was originally going to be 8.5 was renumbered to be 9.0. None of the planned partitioning improvements are included in it. The changes planned there aren't a large as you seem to think they are though. Partitions will still be inherited tables, the improvements are just going to reduce the amount of setup/trigger code you need to write and make management tasks easier. -- Greg Smith 2ndQuadrant US Baltimore, MD PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support greg@2ndQuadrant.com www.2ndQuadrant.us