Re: [GENERAL] [PERFORM] Partioning tsearch2 a table into chunks and accessing via views

2007-08-25 Thread Brandon Shalton
As stated in the previous email if I use partitioning then queries will be executed sequentially - i.e., instead of log(n) it would be (# partitions) * log(n). Right? depends.. since indexes would be hit for each child table, the time for query is dependent on the amount of data that is

Re: [PERFORM] Partioning tsearch2 a table into chunks and accessing via views

2007-08-24 Thread Brandon Shalton
Benjamin, In order to avoid the re-indexing I was thinking of instead creating a new table each month (building its indexes and etc) and accessing them all through a view. This way I only have to index the new data each month. Take a look at bizgres.org (based on postgres). They have a

[PERFORM] disk filling up

2007-07-26 Thread Brandon Shalton
Hello all, My hard disk is filling up in the /base directory to where it has consumed all 200gig of that drive. All the posts that i see keep saying move to a bigger drive, but at some point a bigger drive would just get consumed. How can i keep the disk from filling up other than get lik