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

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

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 purges? I am

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

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 month we

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 by