Re: PostgreSQL clustering VS MySQL clustering

Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 10:08:47AM -0500, Stephen Frost wrote:
> 
>>* Christopher Kings-Lynne (chriskl@familyhealth.com.au) wrote:
>>
>>>PostgreSQL has replication, but not partitioning (which is what you want).
>>
>>It doesn't have multi-server partitioning..  It's got partitioning
>>within a single server (doesn't it?  I thought it did, I know it was
>>discussed w/ the guy from Cox Communications and I thought he was using
>>it :).
> 
> 
> No, PostgreSQL doesn't support any kind of partitioning, unless you
> write it yourself. I think there's some work being done in this area,
> though.

Seen my last attempts to perform an horizontal partition I have to say
that postgres do not support it even if you try to write it yourself
(see my post "horizontal partion" ).


Regards
Gaetano Mendola