Well - whether or not MySQL's implementation of partitioning has some deficiency, it sure is a lot easier to set up than PostgreSQL. And I don't think there is any technical reason that setting up partitioning on Postgres couldn't be very easy and still be robust. On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 13:59:20 +0100, "Mikael Carneholm" <Mikael.Carneholm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said: > > On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 12:47:08PM +0100, Mikael Carneholm wrote: > > >> Take a look at the set of partitioning functions I wrote shortly > after > > >> the 8.1 release: > > >> > > >> http://www.studenter.hb.se/~arch/files/part_functions.sql > > >> > > >> You could probably work something out using those functions (as-is, > or > > >> as inspiration) together with pgAgent > > >> (http://www.pgadmin.org/docs/1.4/pgagent.html) > > >> > > >> /Mikael > > >> > > Those are some great functions. > > > > Well, they're less than optimal in one aspect: they add one rule per > partition, making them unsuitable for OLTP type applications (actually: > any application where insert performance is crucial). Someone with time > and/or energy could probably fix that, I guess...patches are welcome :) > > /Mikael > > > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings