Re: Hash partitioning.

From: Claudio Freire <klaussfreire(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Kevin Grittner <kgrittn(at)ymail(dot)com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Yuri Levinsky <yuril(at)celltick(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-Dev <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Hash partitioning.
Date: 2013-06-26 00:59:43
Message-ID: CAGTBQpZRWAOzGh0ie42bxSQCH6MUy_JWTDihG0M2H6t6RaEf5w@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 6:52 PM, Kevin Grittner <kgrittn(at)ymail(dot)com> wrote:
> I agree though, that having an index implementation that can do the
> first level split faster than any partitioning mechanism can do is
> better, and that the main benefits of partitioning are in
> administration, *not* searching.

Indeed, but the proposal for hash partitions isn't fundamentally
different from range partitions. It's "easy-to-use partitions over
user-defined functions", hash or not.

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