From: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
To: Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>
Cc: simon@2ndquadrant.com, Chris Browne <cbbrowne@acm.org>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Data Warehouse Reevaluation - MySQL vs Postgres --
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 10:28:08 -0700
Message-ID: <200409151028.08461.josh@agliodbs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41485CA6.1080505@joeconway.com>
References: <28292295$109523922141480635ce12a8.90913606@config17.schlund.de>
<41485CA6.1080505@joeconway.com>
Joe,
> - the use of inherited tables to partition this huge number of rows and
> yet allow simple query access to it seems to work well, at least in
> early validation tests
> - had we simply taken the original database and "slammed" it into
> Postgres with no further thought, we would not have seen the big
> improvements, and thus the project might have been seen as a failure
> (even though it saves substantial $)
Any further thoughts on developing this into true table partitioning?
--
--Josh
Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco
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