Re: Hash partitioning.

On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 05:10:00PM +0300, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> In practice, there might be a lot of quirks and inefficiencies and
> locking contention etc. involved in various DBMS's, that you might
> be able to work around with hash partitioning. But from a
> theoretical point of view, there is no reason to expect just
> partitioning a table on a hash to make key-value lookups any faster.

Good analysis.  Has anyone benchmarked this to know our btree is
efficient in this area?

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