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Re: Feature suggestions (long)

Matthew Kirkwood <matthew@hairy.beasts.org>

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From: Matthew Kirkwood <matthew@hairy.beasts.org>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@dcc.uchile.cl>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org>, <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2003-05-17T17:51:48Z
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On Sat, 17 May 2003, Alvaro Herrera wrote:

> > > I'm going suggest a feature like what Oracle calls "partitions" and later on
> > > something with indexes. The idea is to generate some discussion to see if
> > > they are worthy of being added to the TODO list.
> >
> > Why bother?
>
> Maybe one can put different partitions in different tablespaces?

One can.  The tablespace a partition is in can even be
offline if Oracle can prove that a query doesn't require
that partition.

Matthew.