Re: What's a reasonable maximum number for table partitions?

[Tim Uckun <timuckun@xxxxxxxxx>]

If I used modulo arithmetic how would the query optimizer know which table to include and exclude? For example say I did modulo 100 based on the field client_id.  I create a base table with the trigger to insert the data into the proper child table. Each table has the constraint (client_id % 100) = X

So if I do select from base table where client_id = 10  would postgres know to only select from client_table_10? Normally I would always have a client_id in my queries so hopefully the this could be very efficient.

On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 5:12 AM, Vick Khera <vivek@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 7:44 PM, Tim Uckun <timuckun@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Does anybody have experience with huge number of partitions if so where did you start running into trouble? 

I use an arbitrary 100-way split for a lot of tracking info. Just modulo 100 on the ID column. I've never had any issues with that. If you can adjust your queries to pick the right partition ahead of time, which I am able to do for many queries, the number of partitions shouldn't matter much. Only rarely do I need to query the primary table.

I don't think your plan for 365 partitions is outrageous on modern large hardware. For 1000 partitions, I don't know. It will depend on how you can optimize your queries before giving them to postgres.