Main needs partitioning is useful for:
- partition elimination for queries (e.g. seq scans only scan relevant partitions)
- deleting/detaching huge parts of a table in seconds
- attaching huge parts to a table in seconds (that may have been loaded with
a fast loading utility (e.g. loading
Zeugswetter Andreas SB SD kirjutas E, 24.11.2003 kell 13:16:
Main needs partitioning is useful for:
- partition elimination for queries (e.g. seq scans only scan relevant partitions)
- deleting/detaching huge parts of a table in seconds
- attaching huge parts to a table in seconds (that may
James,
I'm not sure what Oracle has to do with any of this. If I wanted to use
Oracle, I would buy Oracle.
Good. Your original post, which appeared to propose carbon-copying a number
of features from Oracle -- I didn't necessarily read it that way, but several
other people did, including
Josh Berkus [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm a little unclear, personally, about what can be accomplished through table
partitioning that we can't currently do through partial indexes and inherited
tables, especially after Gavin finishes his tablespaces patch (btw, Gavin
could use
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
On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 22:20, Tom Lane wrote:
It should be noted that because Oracle does it that way is a
guaranteed nonstarter as a rationale for any Postgres feature proposal.
A method of doing something is not a feature; making something
possible that couldn't be done before is a feature.
Rod Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Personally, I think the best way is simply to make a post on -hackers
with a description of what you want to accomplish with a call for
estimates and proposals. ...
I say a description of what you want to accomplish because certain
features are not as
Mr. Rogers,
Is there any pre-existing protocol for a company to pay for specific
features to be added to PostgreSQL?
Are other people/companies already doing this, either officially or
unofficially, and what is the general protocol for going about doing
this?
Other companies are doing
On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 14:33, James Rogers wrote:
Hi folks,
Is there any pre-existing protocol for a company to pay for specific
features to be added to PostgreSQL?
There are several people who do this type of work (Neil, Joe, David, the
folks are Command Prompt Inc., etc.).
Personally, I
