Tom Lane wrote: > My feeling about it is that we need to provide a partitioning feature > that doesn't rely on the current notion of inheritance at all. We've > heard from multiple users who want to use large numbers of partitions, > enough that simply having a separate relcache entry for each partition > would be a performance problem, never mind the current approach to > planning queries over inheritance trees. So the partitions need to be > objects much simpler than full-fledged tables.
Sorry to hijack the thread, but I agree on this, and I'm worried that the patch being floated for partitioning may paint us on a corner from which it may be difficult to get out. -- Álvaro Herrera http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
