Re: question about partitioning

I'm trying to figure out the logic behind the date parameters though.  I 
don't have to worry at all about partition size.


Joshua Gooding


On 6/24/2010 3:37 PM, Little, Douglas wrote:
> I don't know how you would partition by size.
> Date is a good candidate, and roughly wouldn't you have the same number of tx's/day
> You'll only benefit query performance if you include the partitioning column in the where clause.
> If you have a surrogate pk, you could also use this to partition.  Using a range key you would probably get relatively constant partition size.
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> Doug
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: pgsql-sql-owner@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-sql-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Joshua Gooding
> Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2010 2:31 PM
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> Subject: Re: [SQL] question about partitioning
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> I think I replied to the individual and not to the list before....
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> As of right now size doesn't matter, I need to partition it via a date.
> 10 partitions, 10 weeks worth of data.
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> I was thinking of partitioning it off every 32GB of data, but that is
> not exactly what I am looking to do.
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> Joshua Gooding
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> On 6/24/2010 11:06 AM, Jasen Betts wrote:
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>> On 2010-06-24, Joshua Gooding   wrote:
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>>> Right now I am in the process of migrating an Oracle DB over to Postgres
>>> 8.4.3.  The table is partitioned by size.  Is there anyway to partition
>>> the new postgres table by size?  I created some partitions for the new
>>> table, but I didn't give postgres any rules to partition by, so I have
>>> 250M test records in one table.  Any ideas or thoughts on how to build
>>> the rules for the table by size would be greatly appreciated.
>>>
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>> by size of what?
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