From 8841281325d476b984f7c81d2c052ee5d1e7f815 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pierre-Yves Chibon Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2021 10:19:05 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Add some findings about timescaledb Signed-off-by: Pierre-Yves Chibon --- docs/datanommer_datagrepper/pg_timescaledb.rst | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/datanommer_datagrepper/pg_timescaledb.rst b/docs/datanommer_datagrepper/pg_timescaledb.rst index b13d670..4cfec50 100644 --- a/docs/datanommer_datagrepper/pg_timescaledb.rst +++ b/docs/datanommer_datagrepper/pg_timescaledb.rst @@ -53,3 +53,12 @@ Finally, you can check that the extension was activated for your database: :: $ sudo -u postgres psql \dx + + +Findings +-------- + +After converting the `messages` table to use timescaledb, we've realized that +timescaledb uses table partitioning as well. +This leads to the same issue with the foreign key constraints that we have seen +in the plain partitioning approach we took.