Re: Should we warn against using too many partitions?

David Rowley <david.rowley@2ndquadrant.com>

From: David Rowley <david.rowley@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>, Amit Langote <Langote_Amit_f8@lab.ntt.co.jp>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2019-06-11T01:30:05Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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On Tue, 11 Jun 2019 at 11:15, Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 06:11:35PM -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > On 2019-Jun-09, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> >
> > > I think it should say:
> > >
> > > |    Choosing the target number of partitions into which the table should be
> > > |    divided is also a critical decision to make.  Not having enough
> >
> > I opined elsewhere in the thread that this phrase can be made into more
> > straightforward English:
> >
> >    Choosing the target number of partitions THAT the table should be
> >    divided INTO is also a critical decision to make.  Not having enough
> >
> > What do you think of that formulation?
>
> It originally said:
> | Choosing the number of partitions to divide the table into is also a
>
> So this mostly changes it back.
>
> One could also say:
> |    Another critical decision is [the choice of?] the number of partitions
> |    into which the table['s content?] should be divided...
>
> I'm okay with it if David is okay making the change :)

Changes attached.

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Commits

  1. doc: Fix grammatical error in partitioning docs

  2. doc: Add best practises section to partitioning docs