Hi, Amit.
At Wed, 10 Apr 2019 10:48:38 +0900, Amit Langote <Langote_Amit_f8@lab.ntt.co.jp> wrote in
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> > I think this is useful even counting possible degradation, and I
> > believe generate_partition_qual is not called so often.
>
> I think more commonly used forms of sub-partitioning will use different
> columns at different levels as in the 2nd example. So, although we don't
> call generate_partition_qual() as much as we used to before, even at the
> times we do, we'd encounter this type of sub-partitioning more often and
> the proposed optimization step will end up being futile in more cases than
> the cases in which it would help. Maybe, that was the reason not to try
> too hard in the first place, not the lack of infrastructure as I was saying.
Range partitioning on date could be a common example of
multilevel partitioning, but I agree with you given a premise
that partition qual is not scanned so frequently.
regards.
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Kyotaro Horiguchi
NTT Open Source Software Center