Re: Questions about horizontal partitioning

Ron Johnson wrote:

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On 01/08/07 20:39, Tom Lane wrote: 

John Sales <spelunker334@yahoo.com> writes:   

By doing this, I'm hoping that the query optimizer is smart
enough to see that if a query comes in and requests only the
six columns (that are in the narrower table) that PostgreSQL
won't have to load the wider table into the buffer pool, and
thereby actually have to only access about 10% the amount of
disk that it presently does.     

Is this a sound theory?     

No.  It still has to touch the second table to confirm the
existence of rows to join to.   

But if a query /requests *only* the six columns (that are in the
narrower table)/, why will the optimizer care about the other 224
columns? 

It would.  A query that uses an inner join implies that a matching entry must exist in both tables - so the join must occur, otherwise you could be returning rows that don't satisfy the join condition.

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