Re: Monthly table partitioning for fast purges?

On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 10:28, Jean-Luc Lachance wrote:
> 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.

Well.....

If you're going to partition a *huge* table by, say, a date field,
and there's also an index on that date field, partitioning the
index on that same field may have some advantages.

> Ron Johnson wrote:
> >[...]
> > Partitioning "should" be put on the TODO list soon after tablespaces
> > (or DBA-defined directories) is implemented.

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