On Sat, Nov 22, 2003 at 11:54:45AM -0800, Josh Berkus wrote: > > In a nutshell, the features on my short list are all about heap > > management (e.g. partitioning). This is really important when databases > > reach a certain size, but something for which Postgres has almost no > > support. > > heap management == table partitioning?
It was just an example. Another example could be a B-Tree sorted heap (like an index, but with the whole tuple at the leaf pages instead of a pointer to the heap). There was a thread about this some time ago. It seemed a good idea ... -- Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]dcc.uchile.cl>) "Para tener más hay que desear menos" ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend
