Re: Proposal: Global Index for PostgreSQL

2025-06-14 Thread Dilip Kumar
On Mon, Jun 9, 2025 at 3:28 PM Dilip Kumar wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 9, 2025 at 2:03 PM Nikita Malakhov wrote: > > 4) Update-heavy partitioned tables that should run vacuum frequently. > > Significant > > vacuum slowdown would result in going beyond SLAs without corresponding > > significant impro

Re: Proposal: Global Index for PostgreSQL

2025-06-10 Thread Dilip Kumar
On Wed, Jun 11, 2025 at 1:08 AM Bruce Momjian wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 9, 2025 at 05:51:25PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 9, 2025 at 03:28:38PM +0530, Dilip Kumar wrote: > > There are certainly use cases where this would be helpful, but I think > > the big question is whether it wou

Re: Proposal: Global Index for PostgreSQL

2025-06-10 Thread Dilip Kumar
On Tue, Jun 10, 2025 at 3:21 AM Bruce Momjian wrote: Thanks Bruce for your thoughts on this. > On Mon, Jun 9, 2025 at 03:28:38PM +0530, Dilip Kumar wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 9, 2025 at 2:03 PM Nikita Malakhov wrote: > > > Global Indexes is a very interesting functionality that has both > > > sig

Re: Proposal: Global Index for PostgreSQL

2025-06-10 Thread Bruce Momjian
On Mon, Jun 9, 2025 at 05:51:25PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: > On Mon, Jun 9, 2025 at 03:28:38PM +0530, Dilip Kumar wrote: > There are certainly use cases where this would be helpful, but I think > the big question is whether it would have so many negatives that most > people who try to use it w

Re: Proposal: Global Index for PostgreSQL

2025-06-09 Thread Bruce Momjian
On Mon, Jun 9, 2025 at 03:28:38PM +0530, Dilip Kumar wrote: > On Mon, Jun 9, 2025 at 2:03 PM Nikita Malakhov wrote: > > Global Indexes is a very interesting functionality that has both > > significant advantages > > and drawbacks, and the community seems not ready to accept it without very > >

Re: Proposal: Global Index for PostgreSQL

2025-06-09 Thread Dilip Kumar
On Mon, Jun 9, 2025 at 2:03 PM Nikita Malakhov wrote: > > Hi Dilip! Thanks Nikita for your response and reading my proposal. > Global Indexes is a very interesting functionality that has both significant > advantages > and drawbacks, and the community seems not ready to accept it without very

Re: Proposal: Global Index for PostgreSQL

2025-06-09 Thread Nikita Malakhov
Hi Dilip! Global Indexes is a very interesting functionality that has both significant advantages and drawbacks, and the community seems not ready to accept it without very strong motivation. There was a more recent approach to Global index problem [1], please check it out. I've read you proposal

Re: Proposal: Global Index for PostgreSQL

2025-06-06 Thread Dilip Kumar
On Fri, Jun 6, 2025 at 1:01 PM wenhui qiu wrote: > > Hi Dilip Kumar >Thank you for your working on this ,I remember six years ago there was > talk about global index ,You can see if this mailing list has any references > to > (https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CALtqXTcurqy1PKXzP9XO%3Dof

Re: Proposal: Global Index for PostgreSQL

2025-06-06 Thread wenhui qiu
Hi Dilip Kumar Thank you for your working on this ,I remember six years ago there was talk about global index ,You can see if this mailing list has any references to ( https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CALtqXTcurqy1PKXzP9XO%3DofLLA5wBSo77BnUnYVEZpmcA3V0ag%40mail.gmail.com ) Thanks On Fri

Proposal: Global Index for PostgreSQL

2025-06-06 Thread Dilip Kumar
PostgreSQL’s table partitioning allows large tables to be broken into smaller, more manageable pieces for better performance. However, a key limitation currently is the absence of global indexes, which restricts using partitioned tables, especially when you need unique constraints on columns that a