Re: [GENERAL] Monthly table partitioning for fast purges?

2003-08-05 Thread Jean-Luc Lachance
I second that. I have discussed adding partitioning tables almost a year ago... No need to partition a functional index or anything like that. Just partition on a specific field. Ron Johnson wrote: >[...] > Partitioning "should" be put on the TODO list soon after tablespaces > (or DBA-defined dir

Re: [GENERAL] Monthly table partitioning for fast purges?

2003-08-04 Thread scott.marlowe
On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, Roger Hand wrote: > We are moving an application from Oracle 8i to Postgres and I've run > into a problem attempting to duplicate a feature we currently use. > > In Oracle you can divide a table into partitions. We use this feature > to break up the data by month. Each mont

Re: [GENERAL] Monthly table partitioning for fast purges?

2003-08-04 Thread Jan Poslusny
Did you think about cluster on index ? [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am looking at ways to speed up queries, the most common way by for queries to be constrianed is by date range. I have indexed the date column. Queries are still slower than i would like. Would there be any performance increase f

Re: [GENERAL] Monthly table partitioning for fast purges?

2003-08-04 Thread Benjamin Jury
You could create an index on the function date(), which strips the time information. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 04 August 2003 14:01 > To: PgSQL General ML > Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Monthly table partitioning for fast pu

Re: [GENERAL] Monthly table partitioning for fast purges?

2003-08-04 Thread psql-mail
I am looking at ways to speed up queries, the most common way by for queries to be constrianed is by date range. I have indexed the date column. Queries are still slower than i would like. Would there be any performance increase for these types of queries if the tables were split by month as de

Re: [GENERAL] Monthly table partitioning for fast purges?

2003-08-01 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 01:46:54PM -0700, Roger Hand wrote: > We are moving an application from Oracle 8i to Postgres and I've run into > a problem attempting to duplicate a feature we currently use. > > In Oracle you can divide a table into partitions. We use this feature to > break up the data b