Re: Rules slower than Dynamic SQL ?

On Nov 26, 2007, at 6:09 PM, Simon Riggs wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-11-26 at 16:01 -0800, Alex Vinogradovs wrote:
>> I've got a data warehouse with pretty high rate of insert into
>> partitioned tables. What I've noticed, is that rule-based  
>> partitioning
>> seems to be somewhat slower than insertions made directly into
>> partitions through execution of dynamic SQL.
>>
>> Is it really true ?
>
> Depends how complex your rules are, but I think yes is the short  
> answer.

My understanding is that each rule has to re-evaluate the query  
that's being run. That's going to add some overhead to a simple  
INSERT INTO table VALUES ... but if you think that's bad, try it with  
an expensive INSERT INTO table SELECT statement!
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