Zeugswetter Andreas ADI SD wrote:
>>> (But that sounds rather like pie in the sky, actually. Which other
>>> databases can do that, and how do they do it?)
>> Oracle does it, by building a big index. Few people use it.
>
> And others allow a different partitioning strategy for each index,
> but that has the same problem of how to remove partitions without
> a huge amount of index reorganization.
If you removed a partition, couldn't the index be cleaned up by VACUUM?
Joshua D. Drake
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