Each partition can have its own disk, without using subpartitions. CREATE TABLE th (id INT, name VARCHAR(30), adate DATE) PARTITION BY LIST(YEAR(adate)) ( PARTITION p1999 VALUES IN (1995, 1999, 2003) DATA DIRECTORY = '/var/appdata/95/data' INDEX DIRECTORY = '/var/appdata/95/idx', PARTITION p2000 VALUES IN (1996, 2000, 2004) DATA DIRECTORY = '/var/appdata/96/data' INDEX DIRECTORY = '/var/appdata/96/idx', PARTITION p2001 VALUES IN (1997, 2001, 2005) DATA DIRECTORY = '/var/appdata/97/data' INDEX DIRECTORY = '/var/appdata/97/idx', PARTITION p2000 VALUES IN (1998, 2002, 2006) DATA DIRECTORY = '/var/appdata/98/data' INDEX DIRECTORY = '/var/appdata/98/idx' ); Subpartitions are just a way to break (parent) partitions up into smaller pieces. Those of course can be moved to other disks just like the main partitions. -----Original Message----- From: pgsql-performance-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pgsql-performance-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bernd Helmle Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 6:51 AM To: Scott Marlowe Cc: Jim C. Nasby; Jeremy Haile; pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [PERFORM] Partitioning On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 15:30:16 -0600, Scott Marlowe <smarlowe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: [...] > > And I don't think the mysql partition supports tablespaces either. > MySQL supports distributing partitions over multiple disks via the SUBPARTITION clause [1]. I leave it to you, wether their syntax is cleaner, more powerful or easier or ....;) Bernd [1] http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/partitioning-subpartitions.html ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly