From: Jeremy Haile <jhaile@fastmail.fm>
To: Jim C. Nasby <jim@nasby.net>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Partitioning
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 16:15:54 -0500
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You can do list partitioning in MySQL:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/partitioning-list.html
My comment was not meant as a criticism of PostgreSQL's current state -
I'm glad that it has partitioning. I'm simply wondering if there are
any plans of adopting a more user-friendly syntax in the future similar
to MySQL partitioning support. Having first-class citizen support of
partitions would also allow some nice administrative GUIs and views to
be built for managing them.
Jeremy Haile
On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 15:09:31 -0600, "Jim C. Nasby" <jim@nasby.net> said:
> On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 03:28:00PM -0500, Jeremy Haile wrote:
> > This seems so much more intuitive and simpler than what is required to
> > set it up in PostgreSQL. Does PostgreSQL's approach to table
> > partitioning have any advantage over MySQL? Is a "nicer" syntax planned
> > for Postgres?
>
> The focus was to get the base functionality working, and working
> correctly. Another consideration is that there's multiple ways to
> accomplish the partitioning; exposing the basic functionality without
> enforcing a given interface provides more flexibility (ie: it appears
> that you can't do list partitioning with MySQL, while you can with
> PostgreSQL).
> --
> Jim Nasby jim@nasby.net
> EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com 512.569.9461 (cell)
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