Hi,
tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
>> The main proposal deliberately has few, if any, knobs and dials. That's
>> a point of philosophy that I've had views on previously: my normal
>> stance is that we need some knobs to allow the database to be tuned to
>> individual circumstances.
>
> One thought I had back then, with partitioned tables was "gee -- B-tree
> index is already doing a partition; why do a manual partition on top of
> that?".
Well, that's why I'm so focused on manageability: I think the primary
purpose of partitioning is manageability (of the underlying storage for
a table).
Regards
Markus