Re: PostgreSQL 12: Feature Highlights

On 2019/05/14 22:19, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 06:25:43PM +0900, Amit Langote wrote:
>> Considering the quoted discussion here, maybe it's a good idea to note
>> that only the operations that need to touch a small number of partitions
>> are now processed efficiently, which covers both SELECT/UPDATE/DELETE that
>> benefit from improved pruning efficiency and INSERT that benefit from
>> improved tuple routing efficiency.  So, maybe:
>>
>>     Tables with thousands of child partitions can now be processed
>>     efficiently by operations that only need to touch a small number
>>         of partitions.
>>
>> That is, as I mentioned above, as opposed to queries that need to process
>> all partitions (such as, select count(*) from partitioned_table), which
>> don't perform any faster in v12 than in v11.  The percentage of users who
>> run such workloads on PostgreSQL may be much smaller today, but perhaps
>> it's not a good idea to mislead them into thinking that *everything* with
>> partitioned tables is now faster even with thousands of partitions.
> 
> Agreed, I changed it to your wording.

Thank you.

Regards,
Amit