Re: GSOC PostgreSQL partitioning issue - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

In order to make a system change a student need to be more informed
and experienced for the issue.Nonetheless,this step of work is
actually not the phase of determining all the details,I
guess.Otherwise,I would just do a few weeks of coding in summer to
complete the project and I would be the person in charge in project
management :)

2010/4/8 Necati Batur <necatibatur@gmail.com>:
> Benefits of Project
>
> Partitioning refers to splitting what is logically one large table
> into smaller physical pieces. Partitioning can provide several
> benefits:
>
> Query performance can be improved dramatically in certain situations,
> particularly when most of the heavily accessed rows of the table are
> in a single partition or a small number of partitions. The
> partitioning substitutes for leading columns of indexes, reducing
> index size and making it more likely that the heavily-used parts of
> the indexes fit in memory.
>
> When queries or updates access a large percentage of a single
> partition, performance can be improved by taking advantage of
> sequential scan of that partition instead of using an index and random
> access reads scattered across the whole table.
>
> Bulk loads and deletes can be accomplished by adding or removing
> partitions, if that requirement is planned into the partitioning
> design. ALTER TABLE is far faster than a bulk operation. It also
> entirely avoids the VACUUM overhead caused by a bulk DELETE.
>
> Seldom-used data can be migrated to cheaper and slower storage media.
>
> Delivarables
>
> *The trigger based operations can be done automatically
>
> *The stored procedures can help us to do some functionalities like
> check constraint problem
>
> *manual VACUUM or ANALYZE commands can be handled by using triggers
> DBMS SQL can help to provide faster executions
>
> *Some more functionalities can be added to UPDATE operations to make
> administrations easy
>
> Timeline (not exact but most probably)
>
> Start at june 7 and End around 7 september
>
> *Warm up to environment to Postgresql(1-2 weeks)
>
> *Determine exact operations to be addded on postgresql
>
> *Initial coding as to workbreakdown structure
>
> *Start implementing on distributed environment to check inital functions work
>
> *Write test cases for code
>
> *Further implementation to support full functionalities on ideas
>
> *Write it to discussion site and collect feedbacks
>
> *More support upon feedbacks
>
> *Last tests and documentation of final operations
>
> About me
>
> I am a senior student at computer engineering at iztech in turkey. My
> areas of inetrests are information management, OOP(Object Oriented
> Programming) and currently bioinformatics. I have been working with a
> Asistan Professor(Jens Allmer) in molecular biology genetics
> department for one year.Firstly, we worked on a protein database 2DB
> and we presented the project in HIBIT09 organization. The Project  was
> “Database management system independence by amending 2DB with a
> database access layer”. Currently, I am working on another project
> (Kerb) as my senior project which is a general sqeuential task
> management system intend to reduce the errors and increase time saving
> in biological experiments. We will present this project in HIBIT2010
> too. Moreover,I am good at data structures and implementations on C.
>
>
> Contact: e-mails; necatibatur@gmail.com , necati_batur@hotmail.com(msn)
>