Received: from localhost (maia-4.hub.org [200.46.204.183]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A6EC9FBFE7 for ; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 15:21:15 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.183]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 54245-03 for ; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 15:21:10 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.4 Received: from vms042pub.verizon.net (vms042pub.verizon.net [206.46.252.42]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16F6A9FB7BC for ; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 15:21:09 -0300 (ADT) Received: from osgiliath.mathom.us ([72.66.0.99]) by vms042.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-6.01 (built Apr 3 2006)) with ESMTPA id <0JJY00KZU5N42AAH@vms042.mailsrvcs.net> for pgsql-performance@postgresql.org; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 13:21:04 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by osgiliath.mathom.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BA821F814 for ; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 14:20:55 -0400 (EDT) Received: from osgiliath.mathom.us ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (osgiliath.home.mathom.us [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id qubqzV8NxV39 for ; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 14:20:53 -0400 (EDT) Received: by osgiliath.mathom.us (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 830461F80E; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 14:20:53 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 14:20:53 -0400 From: Michael Stone Subject: Re: Performance query about large tables, lots of concurrent access In-reply-to: <46796E95.30503@commandprompt.com> To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Mail-followup-to: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Message-id: <20070620182051.GW19959@mathom.us> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-disposition: inline X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at mathom.us X-Pgp-Fingerprint: 53 FF 38 00 E7 DD 0A 9C 84 52 84 C5 EE DF 7C 88 References: <4677D298.2010109@metacarta.com> <20070619132643.GC4265@alvh.no-ip.org> <4677DC06.3000300@metacarta.com> <20070619134637.GG4265@alvh.no-ip.org> <467963A8.2060703@metacarta.com> <46796B7E.1040501@metacarta.com> <20070620180852.GV19959@mathom.us> <46796E95.30503@commandprompt.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200706/444 X-Sequence-Number: 25477 On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 11:14:45AM -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote: >Michael Stone wrote: >>Is there a sensible way to partition the large table into smaller tables? > >It entirely depends on your data set. Yes, that's why it was a question rather than a suggestion. :) Mike Stone