Received: from malur.postgresql.org ([217.196.149.56]) by arkaria.postgresql.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1czBSO-00050r-V9 for pgsql-docs@arkaria.postgresql.org; Sat, 15 Apr 2017 00:20:53 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=postgresql.org) by malur.postgresql.org with smtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1czBSO-0000Kf-FS for pgsql-docs@arkaria.postgresql.org; Sat, 15 Apr 2017 00:20:52 +0000 Received: from magus.postgresql.org ([2a02:c0:301:0:ffff::29]) by malur.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1czBS0-00087G-NA for pgsql-docs@postgresql.org; Sat, 15 Apr 2017 00:20:28 +0000 Received: from out1-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.25]) by magus.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1czBRt-0003oq-JI for pgsql-docs@postgresql.org; Sat, 15 Apr 2017 00:20:28 +0000 Received: from compute7.internal (compute7.nyi.internal [10.202.2.47]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5377020789; Fri, 14 Apr 2017 20:20:20 -0400 (EDT) Received: from frontend1 ([10.202.2.160]) by compute7.internal (MEProxy); Fri, 14 Apr 2017 20:20:20 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=content-transfer-encoding:content-type :date:from:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version:references :subject:to:x-me-sender:x-me-sender:x-sasl-enc:x-sasl-enc; s= fm1; bh=KG9Yrzk0GgdFq5KeIFArAtFNciraFRrYOe4SR+HFMsM=; b=FNXxY4mc rDh8hQ/Wf39yRpIbrIUQVhTRJ5UmFKQT6tXHeHGAEMuSQCaaPBY3p3hUnt+NIB2d upHWmNvP7Bf5m0ThghJBRRusjCPgLYHT2V2gUx1cC58tuma717AiCe3pCvcGl77N XZcekYiqFDrUxN8Ph93Htgkx6YRgSbJnDwpNZMth0b57vaoN8e9g7xR9wMtBzjX4 AB3BGo2XXkaoFZsu78/X2pn4f9ZRh1uFF4Pe2/SJ3bqYfOvHDHRyGztvguJ7zYmH vR+RsAFu/9kXo27//RLAcN6ql7ecBINqdmJCNw83U0jzJ1Eue1Qz+BXi2dX3N59S qtoYJ5PcooFlLA== X-ME-Sender: X-Sasl-enc: N/00Dxcxkchqo8MRxyswX9BehIo3VFsyFOSiH212WZDi 1492215620 Received: from april.local (c-73-13-66-39.hsd1.pa.comcast.net [73.13.66.39]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 179E27E616; Fri, 14 Apr 2017 20:20:20 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: Missing Adjective that's rather important To: rtroy@sciencetools.com, pgsql-docs@postgresql.org References: <20170412173938.25941.6283@wrigleys.postgresql.org> From: Peter Eisentraut Organization: 2ndQuadrant Message-ID: <60dfbdff-a3b6-6bbd-e76a-27c1751a93c7@2ndquadrant.com> Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2017 20:20:19 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.12; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20170412173938.25941.6283@wrigleys.postgresql.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Pg-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) List-Archive: List-Help: List-ID: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Mailing-List: pgsql-docs Precedence: bulk Sender: pgsql-docs-owner@postgresql.org On 4/12/17 13:39, rtroy@sciencetools.com wrote: > The author apparently thinks there's only one kind of table partitioning, > but there are two, commonly known as "horizontal" and "vertical". I think the unqualified term is pretty well understood to mean horizontal partitioning. -- Peter Eisentraut http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services -- Sent via pgsql-docs mailing list (pgsql-docs@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-docs