Re: On Scalability

2010/10/7 Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>:
> Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> writes:
>> On 07.10.2010 10:41, Simon Riggs wrote:
>>> Constraint exclusion is linear with respect to number of partitions.
>>> Why do you say exponential?
>
>> For some reason I thought the planner needs to check the constraints of
>> the partitions against each other, but you're right, clearly that's not
>> the case. Linear it is.
>
> Well, it's really more like O(mn) where m is the number of partitions
> and n is the number of clauses in the query --- and not only that, but
> the O() notation is hiding a depressingly high constant factor.  And
> then there are practical problems like failing to exclude partitions as
> soon as there are any parameters in the query.


Does the same considerations apply to partial indexes?
I mean, I can replace table partitioning with index partitioning concept.
(Well I know it's not really the same).
Would then it be the same O(nm) to let the planner choose the right indexes
given a certain query?

> There's basically no way that we're going to get decent performance for
> large numbers of partitions as long as we have to resort to
> theorem-proving to lead us to the correct partition.
>
>                        regards, tom lane
>

I'm not sure about MySQL, but Oracle can handle large partitioning.
So I would say there's a way to achieve the same goal.

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