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From: Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com>
To: kevin kempter <kevin@kevinkempterllc.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Partitioned tables - planner wont use indexes
Date: Sat, 05 Apr 2008 02:26:36 +0100
Message-ID: <87myo9drcj.fsf@oxford.xeocode.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <B5B9A348-AC8B-46E2-AA64-2627B2CC069F@kevinkempterllc.com>
References: <B5B9A348-AC8B-46E2-AA64-2627B2CC069F@kevinkempterllc.com>


"kevin kempter" <kevin@kevinkempterllc.com> writes:

> that the planner wants to do a sequential scan on each  partition. We do have
> "constraint_elimination = on" set in the  postgresql.conf file.

"constraint_exclusion" btw.


> myDB=# explain SELECT min(logdate) FROM part_master;

Er, yeah. Unfortunately this is just not a kind of query our planner knows how
to optimize when dealing with a partitioned table... yet. There are several
different pieces missing to make this work. There's some hope some of them
might show up for 8.4 but no guarantees.

-- 
  Gregory Stark
  EnterpriseDB          http://www.enterprisedb.com
  Ask me about EnterpriseDB's Slony Replication support!



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