Re: 9.5 new features

On 1/23/2016 12:35 AM, Vik Fearing wrote:
>> >ok, but it doesn't deal with our use case of needing to bulk delete a 6
> I can't really parse the end of that sentence, but you are correct that
> BRIN does not help at all with partition dropping.  Think of it more as
> a Seq Scan optimization.

yeah, it was supposed to say, bulk delete 6 month old data once a week,
while the database is still under a full production load of new data.

anyways, yeah, BRIN sounds very cool for very large tables with
relatively stable data.

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john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz