X-Original-To: pgsql-performance-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.144]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 180B0329E83 for ; Wed, 15 Sep 2004 21:42:41 +0100 (BST) Received: from svr1.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 99837-05 for ; Wed, 15 Sep 2004 20:42:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: from cmailm4.svr.pol.co.uk (cmailm4.svr.pol.co.uk [195.92.193.211]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65481329D30 for ; Wed, 15 Sep 2004 21:42:36 +0100 (BST) Received: from modem-2838.llama.dialup.pol.co.uk ([217.135.187.22] helo=happyplace) by cmailm4.svr.pol.co.uk with smtp (Exim 4.14) id 1C7gbp-0005cL-O2; Wed, 15 Sep 2004 21:42:33 +0100 From: "Simon Riggs" To: "Joe Conway" Cc: "Chris Browne" , Subject: Re: Data Warehouse Reevaluation - MySQL vs Postgres -- Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 21:59:06 +0100 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <41485CA6.1080505@joeconway.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Importance: Normal X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hub.org X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 tagged_above=0.0 required=5.0 tests= X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200409/145 X-Sequence-Number: 8273 Joe, Your application is very interesting. I've just read your OSCON paper. I'd like to talk more about that. Very similar to Kalido. ...but back to partitioning momentarily: Does the performance gain come from partition elimination of the inherited tables under the root? Best Regards, Simon Riggs