On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 6:52 PM, Kevin Grittner <kgrittn@ymail.com> wrote:
> I agree though, that having an index implementation that can do the
> first level split faster than any partitioning mechanism can do is
> better, and that the main benefits of partitioning are in
> administration, *not* searching.
Indeed, but the proposal for hash partitions isn't fundamentally
different from range partitions. It's "easy-to-use partitions over
user-defined functions", hash or not.