From: Gerald Fontenay <gvfontenay@lbl.gov>
To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Cc: Gerald Fontenay <gvfontenay@lbl.gov>
Subject: Re: Strange explain on partitioned tables
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 14:26:45 -0700
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Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-07-23 at 15:03 -0700, Gerald Fontenay wrote:
>
>>> The PostgreSQL partitioning system is aimed to support perhaps a
>>> hundred inherited tables. You can expect to get poor performance on
>>> queries if you create 1000 of them.
>>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Why is that you would expect poor performance for say 1000 or more? I
>> have a ~1000 inherited tables and I don't see any significant slowdowns.
>> I only ever access a single inherited table at a time though in this
>> situation. I suppose I am using inheritance only for organization in
>> this case...
>>
>
> It is variable based on workload and as I recall has to do with the
> planning time. As the number of children increases, so does the planning
> time.
>
> Joshua D. Drake
>
>
>
Thank you for your response. So if I query only my target child table,
this should be "just like" any other single table wrt planning right? I
have thousands of these tables. (I suppose that I'm only using
inheritance for the sake of organization in this situation...)
Thanks!
Gerald
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