HI all, I have a very big table (2000 inserts per sec, I have to store 20 days of data). The table has 2 indexes, in columns that have almost-random values. Since keeping those two indexes up-to-date can't be done (updating 2000 times per second 2 indexes with random values on such a huge table is impossible) I thought that partitioning was the way to go. Now I think I have 2 options: a) create 480 partitions, 1 for each hour of the day. 2 indexes on each partition b) create 20 partitions, and create 24*2 partial indexes on the current partition; then the next day (overnight) create 2 global indexes for the table and drop the 24*2 indexes... I thought about option b) because I don't like the fact that the planner takes "ages" to plan a query in case there are 480 partitions; in option b) I would have: 19 partitions with 2 indexes each 1 partition (the "current day" one) with 24*2 partial indexes Does it make sense? Anyone has ever used partial indexes instead of partitions? -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general