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As burtonator pointed out parallelism is an important
feature that partitioning makes possible. So I thought
it might be a good idea to mention a little bit what
we're doing in the area of partitioning.
It's quite correct that parallelism is one of the main
advantages of partitioning (not the only one though since
also partition pruning and dividing large indexes and
being able to add and drop partitions efficiently are
important as well). In 5.1 we focused on the maintenance
features of partitioning but the intention to move on
to parallelisation was more or less the main goal from
the very start.