On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 12:06:09AM +0200, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > Wasn't there also talk about adding the ability to mark individual > partitions as read-only, thus bypassing MVCC and allowing queries > to be satisfied using indexes only? I have a (different) problem that read-only data segments (maybe partitions, maybe something else) would help, so I know for sure that someone is working on a problem like this, but I don't think it's the sort of thing that's going to come any time soon. A -- Andrew Sullivan | ajs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx I remember when computers were frustrating because they *did* exactly what you told them to. That actually seems sort of quaint now. --J.D. Baldwin