On 11 June 2010 13:00, Leonardo F <m_li...@yahoo.it> wrote: > a) create 480 partitions, 1 for each hour of the day. 2 indexes on each > partition > b) create 20 partitions, and create 24*2 partial indexes on the current > partition; then the next day (overnight) create 2 global indexes for the > table and drop the 24*2 indexes... > > I thought about option b) because I don't like the fact that the planner takes > "ages" to plan a query in case there are 480 partitions; in option b) I would > have: > > 19 partitions with 2 indexes each > 1 partition (the "current day" one) with 24*2 partial indexes
Could you please explain the reason to do so many partitions? In case b) you will face a huge overhead related to necessity of checking all the data in the table every time new index is created (doesn't matter it is partial). -- Sergey Konoplev Blog: http://gray-hemp.blogspot.com / Linkedin: http://ru.linkedin.com/in/grayhemp / JID/GTalk: gray...@gmail.com / Skype: gray-hemp / ICQ: 29353802 -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
