Re: On partitioning

On 12/13/2014 03:09 AM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> [snip]
> Arbitrary SQL expressions (including functions) are not the thing to use
> for partitioning -- at least that's how I understand this whole
> discussion.  I don't think you want to do "proofs" as such -- they are
> expensive.

Yup. Plus, it looks like (from reading Oracle's documentation) they end 
up converting the LESS THAN clauses into range lists internally.
Anyone that can attest to this? (or just disprove it, if I'm wrong)

I just suggested using the existing RangeType infrastructure for this ( 
<<, >> and && operators, specifically, might do the trick) before 
reading your mail citing BRIN.    ... which might as well allow some interesting runtime 
optimizations when range partitioning is used and *a huge* number of 
partitions get defined --- I'm specifically thinking about massive OLTP 
with very deep (say, 5 years' worth) archival partitioning where it 
would be inconvenient to have the tuple routing information always in 
memory.
I'm specifically suggesting some ( range_value -> partitionOID) mapping 
using a BRIN index for this --- it could be auto-created just like we do 
for primary keys.

Just my 2c


Thanks,
    / J.L.