Girish, > > Essentially Im trying to store a persons information in a table in the > > database. Since we could have millions of people, with duplicates! Ive > > decided we need to partition the table into segments where all people with > > the LastName starting from A to G will be in one table. H-N will be in > > another table and O-Z in the third. Ive created a VIEW that does a UNION on > > all the tables.
This sounds hideously inefficient and a management headache besides. I think PostgreSQL will accept up to 2 billion rows in any one table, and splitting stuff into 3 tables will not improve your performance ... quite the opposite. Change your database design. -- -Josh Berkus Aglio Database Solutions San Francisco ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])