Re: Setup for large database

On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 11:34:00AM -0400, Vivek Khera wrote:
> As for partitioning based on octet, you should look at your
> distribution of addresses and decide if it scatters the data evenly
> enough for you.

A much more important question: how will you be querying the data?

Partitioning is not a magic-bullet to performance, and when done
incorrectly it can end up hurting.

In this case, if the OP will be querying mostly on things that fit
within a class A, then partitioning on the first octet probably makes a
lot of sense. In fact, partitioning on the first two octets might make a
lot of sense, so long as there's very littly querying across partitions.
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