Re: R: [HACKERS] Table Partitioning is in 8.1

2005-09-23 Thread Bricklen Anderson
Paolo Magnoli wrote: > Hi, I seem to recall that in Oracle you load into specific partitions > without specifically naming them in insert statements (in other words you > insert into table, the engine redirects data to the corrisponding > partition), This is correct -- __

Re: R: [HACKERS] Table Partitioning is in 8.1

2005-09-23 Thread Simon Riggs
On Fri, 2005-09-23 at 12:30 +0200, Paolo Magnoli wrote: > It would be good to have an insert behaviour similar to Oracle by default. OK, thanks. > Also I see that the original table is always scanned, partition exclusion > happens only on the derived tables, is this correct? Yes, though if you

R: [HACKERS] Table Partitioning is in 8.1

2005-09-23 Thread Paolo Magnoli
> -Messaggio originale- > Da: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] conto di Simon Riggs > Inviato: venerdì 23 settembre 2005 11.51 > A: Jim C. Nasby > Cc: Tom Lane; pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org > Oggetto: Re: [HACKERS] Table Partitioning is in 8.1 > > > On Thu, 20

Re: [HACKERS] Table Partitioning is in 8.1

2005-09-23 Thread Simon Riggs
On Thu, 2005-09-22 at 14:37 -0500, Jim C. Nasby wrote: > On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 10:11:50AM +0100, Simon Riggs wrote: > > On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 15:39 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > > > Simon Riggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Is it possible that the Release Notes do not fully explain the > > > > C

Re: [HACKERS] Table Partitioning is in 8.1

2005-09-22 Thread Bruce Momjian
Simon Riggs wrote: > On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 15:39 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > > Simon Riggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Is it possible that the Release Notes do not fully explain the > > > Constraint Exclusion feature? Or is it the consensus that it works but > > > not quite well enough to make a

Re: [HACKERS] Table Partitioning is in 8.1

2005-09-22 Thread Bruce Momjian
Word "basic" added. --- Joshua D. Drake wrote: > > > > On reflection, the only changes I suggest are: > > > > 1) the phrase "This allows for a type of table partitioning" have the > > word "basic" inserted within it to bec

Re: [HACKERS] Table Partitioning is in 8.1

2005-09-22 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On reflection, the only changes I suggest are: 1) the phrase "This allows for a type of table partitioning" have the word "basic" inserted within it to become: "This allows for a basic type of table partitioning" How about just: Initial support for table partitioning. Yes it is non-committal

Re: [HACKERS] Table Partitioning is in 8.1

2005-09-22 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 10:11:50AM +0100, Simon Riggs wrote: > On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 15:39 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > > Simon Riggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Is it possible that the Release Notes do not fully explain the > > > Constraint Exclusion feature? Or is it the consensus that it works

Re: [HACKERS] Table Partitioning is in 8.1

2005-09-22 Thread Simon Riggs
On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 15:39 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Simon Riggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Is it possible that the Release Notes do not fully explain the > > Constraint Exclusion feature? Or is it the consensus that it works but > > not quite well enough to make a song and dance about yet? >

Re: [HACKERS] Table Partitioning is in 8.1

2005-09-21 Thread Hannu Krosing
On K, 2005-09-21 at 15:39 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Simon Riggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Is it possible that the Release Notes do not fully explain the > > Constraint Exclusion feature? Or is it the consensus that it works but > > not quite well enough to make a song and dance about yet? > >

Re: [HACKERS] Table Partitioning is in 8.1

2005-09-21 Thread Hannu Krosing
On K, 2005-09-21 at 18:10 +0100, Simon Riggs wrote: > Table Partitioning is in 8.1 > > I've just read Peter Eisentraut's presentation to the Dutch gov (very > good BTW). On the last page I read that Table Partitioning is a future > for PostgreSQLwhich is strange because Constraint Exclusion is

Re: [HACKERS] Table Partitioning is in 8.1

2005-09-21 Thread Tom Lane
Simon Riggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is it possible that the Release Notes do not fully explain the > Constraint Exclusion feature? Or is it the consensus that it works but > not quite well enough to make a song and dance about yet? I hardly think that the existing constraint-exclusion code i

Re: [HACKERS] Table Partitioning is in 8.1

2005-09-21 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 06:10:15PM +0100, Simon Riggs wrote: > Table Partitioning is in 8.1 > > I've just read Peter Eisentraut's presentation to the Dutch gov (very > good BTW). On the last page I read that Table Partitioning is a future > for PostgreSQLwhich is strange because Constraint Exc

[HACKERS] Table Partitioning is in 8.1

2005-09-21 Thread Simon Riggs
Table Partitioning is in 8.1 I've just read Peter Eisentraut's presentation to the Dutch gov (very good BTW). On the last page I read that Table Partitioning is a future for PostgreSQLwhich is strange because Constraint Exclusion is an 8.1 feature. I've had five other people ask about it too