On Saturday 10 March 2007 00:13, NikhilS wrote: > Hi, > > > > Given that Simon wants to do away with having the master table APPENDed > > > > in > > > > > the planning phase, this would be better. > > > > ISTM you're trading appending the master table for appending the DUMP > > partition, which afaict would give you no gain. > > If there are entries in the master table, I think it would get appended for > all queries regardless of whether we need to examine its contents or not. > Segregating dump data into a partition will avoid that. > > I have seen examples in some other databases wherein a partition specifies > a range of "someval - MAXINT" for instance, to catch such cases. > > That again means that the onus is on the partition creator most of the > times..
*shrug*... we can do that now in pgsql -- Robert Treat Build A Brighter LAMP :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend